This book describes the goldrush experience in vivid detail, from a nine-year-old boy's perspective. We see both domestic details - a lost dog, boys practical jokes, children at school and at play, miners arguments - and the dangers and difficulties of mining - claim jumpers, water shortages, flood, harassment by troopers. The pictures are packed with meticulously rendered detail. Rachel Tonkin has drawn on contemporary artists and diarists to provide a brilliantly realised portrayal of this key period in Australia's history.
