Mining Towns: Making a living, making a life

By Erik Eklund

At any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This timely book is a history of the iconic Australian towns that arose with these booms over a century: Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie and Kambalda. Mining Towns shows the rich cultural and historical legacy these towns helped create as townspeople - those working below the ground and those above - sought to make their lives in them. The current 'fly-in-fly-out' mining culture means we may not see the likes of them again, which, as this book shows, will be a great loss.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 174223352X
• ISBN13: 9781742233529
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: UNSW Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"