The Gold Rushes

First Thus. 24.5 cm deep By 23cm. The great gold rushes of the 1800s are covered in this innovative study of the subject, with excellent text supplemented by equally interesting illustrations. Beginning with the strikes in California and the US West, the scene, and many of the miners, moves to the Australian diggings, crossing then to NZ, back to the Wild West of US as new fields opened there. The South African strikes follow and the account ends with the dramatic and often tragic Klondike rush. 120 pages including acknowledements/index, Photos, art maps, document throughout, some illus double page or with colour tones. Light brown hard covers with gilt front/spine titles VG+, text block excellent. Colour pict DJ VG with light fading at front, adjacent spine.