Mining Towns: Making a living, making a life
Erik Eklund
9781742233529 | Aug 2012 | UNSW Press | Paperback
| 400pp
| 234x153mm
| Stocked item (plenty) | GEN
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AUD$49.99,
NZD$59.99
9781742241111 | Aug 2012 | UNSW Press | Digital (EPUB)
| Stocked item | GEN
At any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This timely book is a history of the iconic Australian towns that arose with these booms over a century: Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie and Kambalda.
Mining Towns shows the rich cultural and historical legacy these towns helped create as townspeople – those working below the ground and those above – sought to make their lives in them. The current ‘fly-in-fly-out’ mining culture means we may not see the likes of them again, which, as this book shows, will be a great loss.
