Gold: the fever that forever changed Australia. David Hill. 2010.

From the mid to late 1800s, Australia experienced a series of staggering gold rushes that would forever change the course of its history. People from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including 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 famously wealthy or demoralised and broken - if they returned at all....