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which started in America. It is a simple story with comic style illustrations.
 * [[image:IMG_3325.JPG width="324" height="246"]] || This book gives you a brief history of the gold rush

The content is historically accurate and the story is an excellent starting point to begin your understanding of the impact the gold discovery had on Australian life. || of the gold rush including the well known Peter Lalor and Edward Hargraves.
 * [[image:IMG_3318.JPG width="225" height="307"]] || Many people left an impact on our society as a result

After reading this book you will discover the influence Mei Quong Tart, David Syme, Catherine Spence, and the son of a convict Frederick Augustus Morgan had on Australia.

This book is one of four in a series located in our library.

There are useful links to websites in this book relevant to your study. The valuable glossary should help you with unfamiliar words. || each double page. It is easy to read and there are photographs <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">showing the gold fields and towns from the past to the present.
 * [[image:IMG_3323.JPG width="210" height="406"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">This second book by M. Guile clearly sets out information over

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">This book explains the value of gold and the effects gold mining <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">has had on the environment.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">There are suggestions of places you could visit in NSW, QLD <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">and WA. If you wanted to see historical buildings, or how see <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">how mines operated in the past to the present day then this book <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">will help you visualise this.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Once again this non-fiction book gives you an easy to read glossary <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">and some more websites you could look up if you needed more information <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">on how gold shaped Australia's identity. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">provides you with more detailed information than the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">previous two books mentioned above. So expect to read more <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">deeply than the previous books.
 * [[image:IMG_3326.JPG width="233" height="293"]] || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">__The Eureka Stockade: Big Trouble on the Diggings__

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">There are plenty of great colour illustrations as well as <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">black and white photographs of influential people who <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">played a part in the Eureka Stockade.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">This book is more suited to the student looking for greater detail <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">on just one aspect of the gold discovery. ||