Download or read book The Gold Rush written by David Hill and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, threw off their previous pursuits and made the often perilous journey to the goldfields, from where they would return either fabulously wealthy or demoralised and broken - if they returned at all.