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He became a sugar chemist and spent several years in the north Queensland sugar belt, during which time he became interested in the colourful history of the north. the first of his Australian histories, River of Gold, is an account of the Palmer River Gold Rush. S'pose I Die is about the same country, after the rush was over and beef had replaced gold as its main export. It is based of Eve Maunsell's written recollections and her conversations with Hector Holthouse about her life in the Mitchell River country and on the Atherton tableland.  \"an enthralling story\" the telegraph  \"a lively and readable account of a pioneer woman's life\" the West Australian","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49545059041553,"sku":"GOR001462885","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50759756349713,"sku":"GOR003637735","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0207187649.jpg?v=1750843303"},{"product_id":"river-of-gold-book-hector-holthouse-9780207158216","title":"River of Gold","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49547527389457,"sku":"GOR006203205","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639257571601,"sku":"GOR006589963","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0207158215.jpg?v=1751227388"},{"product_id":"river-of-gold-book-hector-holthouse-9780207187780","title":"River of Gold","description":"the Wild Days of the Palmer River Gold Rush  \"What with cannibal blacks, pig-tailed Chinamen in thousands, lynch-law hangings, gambling dens, shanty towns, murders, grog-shops and Italian opera singers, the Palmer River Goldfields - properly spun out - should provide enough television material for general exhibition for the next ten years. this one book, River of Gold, could easily be used as the jumping-off ground for the lot. Read it with Hector Holthouse; he will be your guide; he has loved every minute of it, and so will you!\"  -Canberra times  \"the gold rush at Plamer River, on Cape York, lasted about seven years in the 1870s, but with 35,000 diggers it was this country's wildest while it lasted. Holthouse has researched the story of those days well to make a lively and very readable book.\"  -the Bulletin","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49555666796817,"sku":"GOR002888817","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49633996701969,"sku":"GOR006169528","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50287197487377,"sku":"GOR007525118","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0207187789.jpg?v=1750843303"},{"product_id":"s-pose-i-die-book-hector-holthouse-9780207163166","title":"S'pose I Die","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49614111932689,"sku":"GOR003469252","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50200258117905,"sku":"GOR001841316","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52862161977617,"sku":"GOR002601399","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0207163162.jpg?v=1751290468"},{"product_id":"gympie-gold-a-dramatic-story-of-queensland-gold-book-hector-holthouse-9780207196935","title":"Gympie Gold: A Dramatic Story of Queensland Gold","description":"A dramatic story of Queensland gold. Hector Holthouse's earlier book, River of Gold, gave a lively account of the Palmer River gold-rush in the 1870s. In this book, Hector has turned his attention to the discovery of gold at Gympie. Combining thorough historical research with a dramatic reconstruction of events, he has written a colourful, authentic documentary of a fascinating era in Australia's past. For fifty years after James Nash discovered gold in 1867 at the spot on the Mary River in Queensland where Gympie now stands, gold was the town's main source of income. And in that period the lure of a fortune made from gold was responsible for many dramatic events - the sensational Escort Murder, hold-ups by bushrangers, battles between Chinese and European prospectors - which Hector vividly describes against a background of life in a frontier town with all its hardships. Illustrated with drawings and photographs of the period and the author's own photographs of present-day Gympie, Gympie Gold is popular history at its most readable.  A dramatic story of Queensland gold. Hector Holthouse's earlier book, River of Gold, gave a lively account of the Palmer River gold-rush in the 1870s. In this book, Hector has turned his attention to the discovery of gold at Gympie. Combining thorough historical research with a dramatic reconstruction of events, he has written a colourful, authentic documentary of a fascinating era in Australia's past. For fifty years after James Nash discovered gold in 1867 at the spot on the Mary River in Queensland where Gympie now stands, gold was the town's main source of income. And in that period the lure of a fortune made from gold was responsible for many dramatic events - the sensational Escort Murder, hold-ups by bushrangers, battles between Chinese and European prospectors - which Hector vividly describes against a background of life in a frontier town with all its hardships. 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