Author: MAY, PHILIP ROSS.
Title: The West Coast Gold Rushes.
Description: Second Revised Edition; Thick Demy 8vo; pp. 560; endpaper maps, text illustrated with 48 pages of b/w. photographs, 19 maps and diagrams, appendices, glossary, note on sources, sources, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket chipped and creased on edges, otherwise a very good copy. Christchurch; Pegasus Press; 1967. Gold changed New Zealand's West Coast from no-man's-land to a settled district in three years. Before 1865 the region was almost uninhabited. By 1867 it was dotted with townships, crisscrossed with tracks and tramways, its population numbered nearly thirty-thousand. This is the full story of that gold rush.
Keywords: New Zealand Mining geology Gold South Pacific Region
Title: The West Coast Gold Rushes.
Description: Second Revised Edition; Thick Demy 8vo; pp. 560; endpaper maps, text illustrated with 48 pages of b/w. photographs, 19 maps and diagrams, appendices, glossary, note on sources, sources, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket chipped and creased on edges, otherwise a very good copy. Christchurch; Pegasus Press; 1967. Gold changed New Zealand's West Coast from no-man's-land to a settled district in three years. Before 1865 the region was almost uninhabited. By 1867 it was dotted with townships, crisscrossed with tracks and tramways, its population numbered nearly thirty-thousand. This is the full story of that gold rush.
Keywords: New Zealand Mining geology Gold South Pacific Region
Price: AUD 60.00 = appr. US$ 41.51 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 114587
- Book number: 114587