Claude de Bernales: The Magnificent Miner: A Biography by Hal Colebatch

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Claude de Bernales was an enigmatic and controversial presence in Western Australia. In the 1920s, he saved the gold industry and perhaps the state itself from starvation during the Depression of the 1930s.

He built and lived in magnificent style in both Western Australia and London. Widely accused of misfeasance and fraud, he was financially and commercially annihilated. He was, however, never prosecuted or brought to trial. (back cover)