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Volume 7 in The Australians series moves to a major turning point in Australian history - the discovery of gold. For the first sixty years of Australia's existence, proof that her mountains and rivers were rich in gold was rigorously suppressed by successive governors. Lachlan Macquarie said that the future prosperity of New South Wales lay in its agriculture. 'The people would starve if they were permitted to squander the bounties of nature in a wild quest for gold.' The California Gold Rush of 1848-49 brought Australians determined to use their mining skills in a search for the country's undiscovered riches. Amongst the motley crowd of avaricious gold seekers was Jasper Morgan, who had murdered his Californian partners. Learning in San Francisco that their quarry has taken ship to Australia, Luke and Mercy join Claus Van Buren's clipper ship, the Dolphin, to work their passage to Sydney... also returning is Red Broome. By the time the two ship reach Sydney the Australian gold rush has begun. The harbour is filled vessels deserted by their crews and in the towns and on the sheep and cattle stations workers have abandoned their employment to join ' the wild quest for gold' that Governor Macquarie so greatly feared..... Hardback Ed 1985, Double Day Book with Dust Jacket.
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