Written from the author's (Thomas Browne's) experience as Goldfields Commissioner at Gulgong in the 1870s, it also casts back to the Chinese riots at Lambing Flat, to the robbery of the gold-escort at Eugowra, and to the Eureka stockade
Analysis
Australia - gold mining
Novels in English. Australian writers, 1890-1945. Texts. Facsimiles
Notes
Facsimile of edition published, London: Macmillan, 1890
First published in the "Australian town and country journal', 3 January - 18 December 1880