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1 online resource : illustrations, portraits |
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Cover -- About the author -- Also by the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 AUSTRALIA -- 2 THE ADVENTURE -- 3 THE GHAN -- 4 ANNA CREEK -- 5 THE LURE OF OPAL -- 6 THE UNDERGROUND TOWN -- 7 WONDERLAND -- 8 BUSH HOUSE -- 9 THE DUTCHMAN AND BIG LICK -- 10 GOING BUSH -- 11 FINDING OPAL! -- 12 BELONGING -- 13 MONEY PROBLEMS -- 14 SPEEDWAY AND KEEPING SHOP -- 15 THE RED TERROR -- 16 MAKING HEADLINES -- 17 FIVE MILE -- 18 LIFE ON AN OPAL FIELD -- 19 BRINGING BACK AH CHEE -- 20 THE SECRET FIELD -- 21 LEARNING TO BLAST -- 22 THE STORM -- 23 THE MAN WITH THE HARP |
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24 THE THREAT OF WAR -- 25 DOING ONE'S BIT -- 26 A POSTMISTRESS, TEACHER AND TELEPHONIST -- 27 OPAL FIT FOR A QUEEN -- 28 STONES OF FIRE -- 29 HOME -- PICTURE SECTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
| Summary |
The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia. People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington was not the faint-hearted type, and never had been. Being tough came naturally to her, growing up with three brothers and a family that went from riches to ruins.Only a slip of a girl, Minnie could match any man in stamina, perseverance and strength. She arrived in Coober Pedy when camels still brought in essential supplies, and water was so scarce that no-one washed. Together with the other miners, she braved the heat, the flies and the dust. Every day she waited for that special sound the pick made when it cracked opal. The first woman to dig her own shafts in the Australian opal fields, Minnie began her working life as a typist in London. But she and her younger brother, Victor, sought freedom and adventure in the 1920s and found plenty of it in the outback |
| Notes |
Title from title screen |
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Berrington, Minnie, 1897-2001
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Women pioneers -- Australia -- Biography
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Women miners -- Australia -- Biography
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Women miners
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Women pioneers
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Australia
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781761186462 |
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1761186469 |
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