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Dunedin: Otago Heritage Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. (1988). First Edition. Softcover. 0959772375 . No signatures. ; 68 pages. Illustrated card wrappers. Page dimensions: 238mm x 178mm. Illustrated in B&W and colour. "Nenthorn was Otago's last quartz goldmining rush. Its rapid rise to prominence was matched only by its equally rapid decline: discovery, boom and bust all occurred within the few short years, 1888 - 1891. The recovery of the records of the Warden's Courts of Central Otago, and the discovery of the liquidation records of some of Nenthron's ill-fated companies provided an opportunity to study in detail the people and processes involved in the creation, management and collapse of a mining system." - from the foreword. Contents: Ready for a Miracle; 'A Second Thames'; A Working Man's Diggings?; A Huge Fizzle?; Into Liquidation; After the Boom; Leading Men to Ruin; Index. ; 4to .
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- Title Nenthorn: Gold And The Gullible
- Author Hearn, Terry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Otago Heritage Books, Dunedin
- Date (1988)
- ISBN 9780959772371
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