NOT A POOR MAN’S FIELD

The New Guinea Goldfields to 1942 – An Australian Colonial History

By Michael Waterhouse
Foreword by Ross Garnaut

Halstead Press Hardcover in Dustjacket 272 Pages 2010

Signed by Michael Waterhouse

In the steep jungles of pre-War New Guinea, miners, battled disease, the elements, Australian administrators and sometimes local villagers, to exploit some of the world's richest, most inaccessible goldfields. Colourful pioneers were followed by companies challenging the obstacles in ways never before tried on such a scale.

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