A Gold Seeker's Odyssey by Leslie Robert Menzies

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Leslie Menzies was one of the hopeful band of prospectors who arrived in Western Australia during the 1890s goldrush. A successful miner in the United States and New Zealand, his knowledge gave him an early advantage at Parkers Range and the Murchison. The Menzies mines were discovered by him in 1894.

In the ups and downs of mining, Menzies found that down was almost out. Greener fields in Madagascar, Africa, Japan, and later the Kimberley beckoned. He eventually retired to California, where he wrote these reminiscences shortly before he died in 1939. (back cover)