GOLDEN RAUB The life and times of William Bibby engineer, gold miner and pioneer and the story of the Raub gold mine

• Main Author: Bibby, Victor (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Kuala Kubu Baru Persatuan Sejarah Kuala Kubu 2016
• Subjects: Engineers; Gold miners; Australia
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• Physical Description: vii, 439 pages illustrations 24 cm
• ISBN: 9789671439524

Unmarked and forgotten graves, an old pickle jar, a stamp shoe worn to a slipper, abandoned mines in Victoria and remotest Queensland, floods and rebellion. All are stops and clues along the way as Victor Bibby treads in the footsteps of a gold mining pioneer to discover long-lost relatives and the truths about his own family. Bringing alive an historical account of life on the goldfields and events that made colonial history. A fascinating tale of a toolmaker from industrial England who created a new life in Australia as an engineer, innovator and gold miner before struggling against the odds to find fame and fortune as a mining pioneer in the Malayan jungle.