Humanities - History: The Gold Rush

This book tells the story of the brave, sometimes foolhardy, explorers and settlers that opened up the Australian continent to the rest of the world. Names such as Evans, Hume, Hovell, Sturt, Mitchell, Cunningham, Oxley, Leichhardt, Gregory, Burke, Wills, Eyre, Stuart, Forrest and many others resound through this story.

This text tells the story of how gold changed the face of the Australian colonies to build a new and prosperous nation.

This book tells the story of the wild colonial boys — the bushrangers who terrorized the highways and back roads of regional Australia for a century from 1788. The book relates how their very diverse circumstances drove them into lives of crime and celebrity status among the colonial population.