Minnie : the remarkable story of a true trailblazer who found freedom and adventure in the outback
Velzen, Marianne van2023
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Only a slip of a girl, Minnie could match any man in stamina, perseverance and strength. She arrived in Coober Pedy when camels still brought in essential supplies, and water was so scarce that no-one washed. Together with the other miners, she braved the heat, the flies and the dust. Every day she waited for that special sound the pick made when it cracked opal. The first woman to dig her own shafts in the Australian opal fields, Minnie began her working life as a typist in London. But she and her younger brother, Victor, sought freedom and adventure in the 1920s and found plenty of it in the outback.
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Author:
Velzen, Marianne van, author
Work:
Imprint:
Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2023.©2023
Collation:
viii, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781761068706 (paperback)
Dewey class:
920.7294
Language:
English
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BRN:
450281