Memories of Kalgoorlie
Memories of
Kalgoorlie
by Filton Hebbard
in
US in
UK
Memories
of Kalgoorlie
Tales from the Australian Outback
by Filton Hebbard
US Price:
$19.95 UK
Price £17.10 
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Pages: 384
ISBN: 0-595-19134-7
Publication Date: Jul-2001
Picaresque and vivid stories told with humour and pathos, which reveal the
stark realities, the swift, sometimes cruel justice of the bush in the old
mining days of Western Australia.
When gold was first discovered in the arid regions of Western Australia it
attracted from all parts of the world the rich, the adventuous, the
hard-working family man, the characters, the villians, and a miscellaneous
array of misfits. Together, they created a kind of history the author has
endeavoured to record with both pathos and humour. These vivid stories
have authentic backgrounds and some stem from gossip, yarns, pub talk,
with origins that are hazy. But nobody who lived throughout the early days
of the pioneer town of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, would deny the
possibility of any of them.
The author
Born
into the hard and thankless world of a pioneer gold-mining town where
suffering was unspeakable, Filton Hebbard has always yearned to write.
Now, grateful for those painful years that had so much to offer, his head
is full of books! Tipsy Marsh is his second novel to come out of
his early Kalgoorlie experience. Branigan, his first novel, remains
one of the most vivid tales about pioneering life in the Australian
outback. Memories of Kalgoorlie brings together a host of vivid memories
and impressions of the Australian bush.
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