Download or read book Gold Rush Otago 1861 64 written by David Hanger and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Rush Otago 1861-64 is about overcoming the dangers posed by the harsh mountainous landscape and furious elements of New Zealand's Otago goldfields. The story, based on fact in terms of time, place and actual events, follows three Australian families who join forces in the search for both gold and a place they can call home.
Download or read book Diggers Hatters Whores written by Stevan Eldred-Grigg and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social history of New Zealand's gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries. A thorough and carefully researched history of the gold rushes in New Zealand. Based on sound scholarship and aimed at the general reader it's accessibly written in a clear, clean and lively style. The scope is the social history of the goldfields of colonial New Zealand, from the 1850s to the 1870s. The book opens with a survey of worldwide rushes in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries, when for the first time in history a great wheeling movement of gold diggers began to revolve from continent to continent. The main body of the book looks at all the rushes, large and small, that took place in the colony: Coromandel, Golden Bay, Otago, Marlborough, the West Coast and Thames. The early chapters of the main body survey rushes chronologically; the later chapters look at rushes thematically. 'I owe a debt of gratitude to . . . Stevan Eldred-Grigg's history of the New Zealand gold rushes Diggers, hatters & whores.' Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Download or read book Goldfields of Otago written by John Hall-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1861 Gabriel Read discovered rich gold in Gabriels Gully [near Lawrence] triggering ... the great gold rush to Otago. One year later Hartley and Reilly panned 87 pounds of gold from the Dunstan Gorge of the Clutha River and a second great rush of miners swept into the province. From the poorest province in the young colony it became the richest. As eager prospectors pushed their way further up the Clutha River and its tributaries fabulously rich strikes were made in the Arrow and Shotover Rivers. Instant gold towns sprang up at Clyde, Alexandra, Cromwell, Arrowtown and Queenstown and the population of Otago rocketed. In 1863 the pattern was repeated on the mountainous flanks of the Manuherikia Valley and the Maniototo Plain. ..."--Front cover verso.
Download or read book The New Zealand Official Year book written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Early Gold Discoveries in Otago written by Vincent Pyke and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goldrush to the Thames Abridged written by Kae Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now, little was known about who the miners were that came to the Thames during the early days of the gold rush in 1867. Still less was known about how they went about finding gold high in the ranges behind the Thames township. They flocked in, firstly from Auckland and then from all parts of New Zealand and the wider world beyond. Before long, there were thousands of hard-working diggers frantically excavating a vast network of underground tunnels, seeking those elusive quartz leaders and reefs that contained the gold. Some struck gold bonanzas and were set for life, others burrowed for months in barren earth and spent all their savings just trying to keep themselves from starvation.This book is an abridged version of the first edition of GOLDRUSH TO THE THAMES, NEW ZEALAND 1867 - 1869 that was published earlier in 2017. It contains essentially the same story of the Thames Goldrush as the original edition but has less detail on individual miners and their claims while many maps, diagrams, photos, appendices, glossaries and indexes have been removed. This edition is intended for the more casual reader while the original is now considered a reference book for the genealogist or serious student of the early Thames Goldrush.Both editions of this book are designed to link with the online database of Miner's Rights and claims in the 'Goldrush Online' website at www.KaeLewis.com. The book goes a long way towards answering the questions: Who were the diggers? Where were their claims? How did they find the gold? Did they find any?It is largely based on contemporary reports and stories from people who were on the goldfields. Some sources are archived letters and diaries while much of it comes from contemporary newspaper articles. The language in newspapers of that era is difficult for modern readers to wade through but skilful editing, interspersed with explanations, makes this book quite readable and fascinating while at the same time it documents the life of the miners at Thames during the goldrush era of 1867-69. Numerous photographs add colour and detail.
Download or read book Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Power in the Nineteenth Century Tasman World written by Alexandra Roginski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling history of popular phrenology in the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of the nineteenth-century Tasman World.
Download or read book New Zealand National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Zealand National Bibliography to the Year 1960 To 1889 pt 1 A M pt 2 N Z written by Austin Graham Bagnall and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Peoples written by James Belich and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paper This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new assertions and challenging many historical myths, it seeks to reinterpret our approach to the past. Given New Zealand's small population, short history, and great isolation, the history of the archipelago has been saddled with a reputation for mundanity. According to James Belich, however, it is just these characteristics that make New Zealand "a historian's paradise: a laboratory whose isolation, size, and recency is an advantage, in which the grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernably, than elsewhere." The first of two planned volumes, Making Peoples begins with the Polynesian settlement and its development into the Maori tribes in the eleventh century. It traces the great encounter between independent Maoridom and expanding Europe from 1642 to 1916, including the foundation of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s. It describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. The author carefully examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of one of the most critical and controversial documents in New Zealand's history, the Treaty of Waitangi, frequently descibed as New Zealand's Magna Carta. The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their Hawaikis, or ancestors, with each other, and with myth. Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand history and in the history of new societies in general.
Download or read book Mountain of Gold Mount Alexander 1851 1861 written by Marjorie Theobald, Sr. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of then first 10 years of the 19 century Victorian gold rush
Download or read book New Zealand Geographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Rushes written by William Parker Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Rivers Run Blue written by Des Beatty and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Andrew Buchanan ventured from Melbourne in 1860 to go farming near Dunedin, fate stepped in. He found a new country in a time of rapid political and commercial change with an obsession for gold. The strive for this precious ore was shaking Dunedin out of its closed society as a new wave of pioneers arrived in their droves. Becoming a trader on the goldfields, he is part of the legacy which saw over 40 tonnes of gold washed out of Otago's rivers. With little more than hand shovels, tin dishes, and washing cradles they endured great hardships in pursuit of their dreams. The great gold rushes in Otago were part of a series of international rushes starting in Russia, then moving to California, Australia, New Zealand and then on to Alaska. Where Rivers Runs Blue is a historical novel which graphically reflects the pioneers' spirit that helped form New Zealand today.
Download or read book A History of New Zealand Women written by Barbara Brookes and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of view of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts? That considered their lives as distinct from (though often unwillingly influenced by) those of history’s ‘great men’? In her ground-breaking History of New Zealand Women, Barbara Brookes provides just such a history. This is more than an account of women in New Zealand, from those who arrived on the first waka to the Grammy and Man Booker Prize-winning young women of the current decade. It is a comprehensive history of New Zealand seen through a female lens. Brookes argues that while European men erected the political scaffolding to create a small nation, women created the infrastructure necessary for colonial society to succeed. Concepts of home, marriage and family brought by settler women, and integral to the developing state, transformed the lives of Māori women. The small scale of New Zealand society facilitated rapid change so that, by the twenty-first century, women are no longer defined by family contexts. In her long-awaited book, Barbara Brookes traces the factors that drove that change. Her lively narrative draws on a wide variety of sources to map the importance in women’s lives not just of legal and economic changes, but of smaller joys, such as the arrival of a piano from England, or the freedom of riding a bicycle.
