
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Gold-Dust and Ashes
About this book
The Romantic Story of the New Guinea Goldfields. His latest book is really the romance of the Edie Creek and Bulolo diggings, situated inland from Salamau; and with the discovery of the field are associated the names of diggers as "Shark Eye Bill" (William Park), Matt Crowe, Jim Preston, Arthur Dowling, Frank and Jim Pryke... men who in pre-war years, crept across the frontier, defying the Germans and dodging the headhunters... These men endured terrible hardships, and frequently faced grim tragedy. Mr Idriess writes of it all, and writes of it as if he had been with them. What a romance! What a story! It is packed with adventure, studded with splendid pen-pictures of pioneer prospectors, airmen, and patrol officers, and told with a fascinating simplicity that is borne from something very close to genius.- Brisbane Courier, 1933.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Gold
- Many Fighters
- Seeking a Nation’s Gold
- Shark-Eye Park
- Cecil John Levien
- The Golden Calf
- While the Village Burns
- Shark-Eye Seeks a Mate
- The Bubu Patrol
- The Ambush
- The Finding of Shark-Eye Park
- Battling through to a New Life
- While the Carrier Sleeps
- The Midget and the Star
- The Finding of Edie Creek
- The Farewell of Shark-Eye Park
- The Bom-Boms Come
- Fifty Pounds of Meat
- The Eye that Saw all Things
- Eldorado
- The Race Starts
- The Caging of Yabbi the Luluai
- The Punitive Expedition
- The Cyclone
- The Mountain Flight
- The Opposition Arrives
- Facing Disaster
- The Dead Man “Shouts”
- Side Shows and Golden Linings
- The Flying Men
- Triumphs of the Air
- Gold-Dust and Ashes
- Glossary