Alexander Kinross is remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and a godless rebel. But when he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his Scottish relatives realise that he has made a fortune on the gold fields and is a man to be reckoned with. Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, 16-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers that he frightens and repels her. Offered no choice, she marries him and is whisked at once across wild, uninhabited countryside to Alexander's own town, named Kinross after himself. In the crags above it lies the world's richest goldmine.

The touch spans the latter half of the 19th century on the NSW goldfiends. The sotry of Alexander and his women occurs amid the birth pangs of a nationm, when power belonged to men and women were walled in by terrible obstacles. But power must be paid for, and obstales can be shattered ...

This is a large format paperback in very good condition.

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