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| Author | : Billy Marshall-Stoneking |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Friendship |
| ISBN | : 9780340516683 |
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Mr Nick and Mrs Jolley are friends. They meet every morning on the seven o'clock train to the city. Mr Nick knits jumpers for his twenty-two nieces and nephews and Mrs Jolley knits toys. They both love knitting and they love each other's company. One morning Mrs Jolley isn't on the train, she is ill in hospital. Mr Nick misses his friend and works very hard to make something very special to cheer her up. This touching story of a bond between friends is simply told with a good deal of rhythm and appeal to young children.
| Author | : Kathryn England |
| Publisher | : Omnibus Books |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
| ISBN | : 9781862914599 |
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The story of the man who claimed to have discovered a gold-bearing reef in Central Australia and subsequent attempts by others to find and mine the gold.
| Author | : Bill Decarli |
| Publisher | : Boolarong Biographies |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2021-09-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1922643068 |
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Fact or myth? Harold Bell Lasseter and his claim of finding a vast gold-bearing reef in Central Australia has continually been surrounded in mystery. Yet his ill-fated death in the Australian outback, where the land is unforgiving to the careless and the foolhardy, is relatively undisputed. Despite Lasseter taking secrets to a lonely desert grave in 1931, the story of the elusive gold reef has become a holy grail for explorers from near and far. One such explorer is Vietnam veteran Bill Decarli, who has spent the best part of forty years unravelling one of Australia’s greatest mysteries. On his maiden voyage to the outback in 1991, instead of heading towards Western Australia like other diehard explorers, Bill reversed his map and headed east towards Queensland. It was there that he struck upon the infamous gold reef, one that Lasseter had never laid eyes on, yet some how had been made aware of its existence. Based on significant new insights, and with a further nine trips to the reef, the key to putting all the pieces together, for Bill, was a man who barely left any trace of his own existence — until now. A story of adventurous hearts, honesty and resolve, in this new twist, Bill unearths how Lasseter’s claim was another man’s story, the exact location of the reef and how the reef stands to have a bright future.
| Author | : Warren Brown |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2015-07-28 |
| Genre | : Lasseter's Reef (Legendary place) |
| ISBN | : 9780733631603 |
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When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930 it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15 kilometre gold reef. The mystery deepened when he and a surveyor returned to the isolated and mysterious ranges where the reef was supposed to be located. It became legendary when the largest inland expedition since Burke and Wills was launched. In Lasseter's Gold, Warren Brown vividly recreates the drama of the search - the characters, the fights, the soaring temperatures, the impossible terrain, the plane crash, the pistol-carrying dingo-skinner who appeared out of nowhere. And just who was this man Lasseter? A one-time sailor, a bigamist, a man who claimed John Bradfield stole his plans for a single-span bridge to cross Sydney Harbour - was he also a very, very good liar? Lasseter's Gold is the gripping story of an outback legend. Is it just a myth - or is there really a massive gold reef out there, just waiting to be discovered?
| Author | : Ion Idriess |
| Publisher | : ETT Imprint |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2018-10-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1925416933 |
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(from The Spectator, May 1936) In his introduction to Lasseter's Last Ride (Cape, 7s. 6d.) Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood writes : "The annals of Central Australian exploration are tragic and heroic, but it is long indeed since I read a more moving story of endurance and heroism in the face of terrific odds than the epic which Mr. Ion Idriess has woven out of the last few months of the life of L. H. B. Lasseter." The reader will agree with this, and wonder why he has not heard of Mr. Idriess before. He is well known in Australia, but this is his first book to be published in England. It will not be his last, if the present one meets with the success it deserves. Having himself been a prospector, the story he has constructed out of the fragments of documentary evidence - a few reports, the barely legible diary and letters found buried near Lasseter's last camps - is probably very close to what actually happened. Harry Lasseter had once discovered a rich gold reef in unexplored west Central Australia. Owing to a faulty watch, the bearings he took were useless. An expedition was fitted out to locate it. From the first, misfortune dogged the steps of the party. Food ran short and they returned to the base-camp - all except Lasseter, who went on alone. When his two camels bolted he was left waterless in the desert. Blinded by sand and tortured by dysentry, he found the reef, but died shortly afterwards, deserted by a tribe of aborigines with whom he had tried to make friends. Mr. Idriess tells this story in a simple, virile style which is, in its intense economy, comparable to Hemingway at his best.
| Author | : Steven Elliott |
| Publisher | : Balboa Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2020-10-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1504322983 |
Download Lasseters Legacy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Lasseter legend is well known in Australia, or at least it was when I was a younger man. The story goes that a man named Harrold Lasseter whilst journeying across the desert from Alice Springs to the west coast around 1900 reportedly discovered a fabulously rich reef of gold. Nothing was done about the discovery until many years later in the 1930’s when Lasseter mounted an expedition to relocate the fabulous reef, an expedition that resulted in his death and no reef. Since that time many people have ventured into the desert in search of the reef with no success. This book details a geologists quest for the reef and his own fabulous gold find which become embroiled in criminal conspiracy and action. Of course the hero geologist triumphs and a World class series of gold mines is established. It should however be noted that the author believes that Lasseters gold reef never existed.
| Author | : Mark Greenwood |
| Publisher | : ISBS |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781876268992 |
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This engaging, accessible and atmospheric book tells a children's version of the famous legend of Harold Lasseter who found a fabulous reef of gold in the desert. He almost died on the return trek with his gold samples, and was rescued and nursed back to health by an Afghan cameleer and a surveyor. Years later, Lasseter returned to the interior with companions, confident he would be able to locate the site of his original find. But the expedition proved a disaster, and after weeks of searching the men lost confidence in their leader and abandoned him. Lasseter continued on with a team of camels, and he finally found the reef, and pegged it. But his camels escaped leaving him to struggle on alone. Despite the help of a family of desert nomads, he never made it back to civilization, leaving behind only a handful of clues that have tantalized treasure hunters ever since.
| Author | : Warwick Austin |
| Publisher | : Watson Ferguson & Company |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2022-05-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0645508306 |
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Cattleman Jack Harding has information he thinks will lead him and his Aboriginal friend, Sam Wundura, to the fabled Lasseter’s Reef which he must find if he is to recover his family birthright, Belowra Downs station. The Land Council has given him permission to search Native Land. The Local Aborigines haven’t. Neither has Brett Hamilton of ASIO’s Domestic Operation Unit who cannot allow the Reef ever to be discovered. It is a matter of vital national importance that the location of Lasseter’s Reef remains secret. Hamilton despatches an SAS patrol led by a psychopathic sergeant to ensure Harding fails without the Aborigines knowing. But can the sergeant follow orders? Harding is in for a hard time and when he thinks things can’t get worse … they do.
| Author | : John Somerset |
| Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2022-05-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1528994213 |
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Jack Johnson is both lucky and unlucky. He survives the Vietnam war as a decorated helicopter pilot, marries the girl he left behind, and lands on his feet at Australia’s leading advertising agency, as a launch pad to spectacular success in the industry. Lucky, you might say. But luck can change. Jack is hit with a bogus criminal charge that chases him into the Great Australian Desert, in a quest for Lasseter’s fabled gold reef. But Jack is not the only one looking. A mysterious Chinese company called Triple Eight is buying up leases in the desert, and people are dying. Back home, he leaves not only a heartbroken wife but a beautiful and very determined daughter who has had her own problems. Expelled from Australia’s most prestigious public school, Tess Johnson vows to clear her father’s name. Lasseter’s Truth follows them both as they take on the odds. A story that ranges from the greed of the nineties, into a famous legend of Australia’s outback, with a compelling climax for our own time.
| Author | : Iain McCalman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2001-03-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521805957 |
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Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce an innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society.
