'Goldfield Balladeer. The Life and Times of the Celebrated Charles R. Thatcher' - Robert Hoskins

Collins Auckland and London, 1977, hardcover, 194pp. Good condition.

'Gold! Gold! Was the cry so often heard in the 1860s. The romance of this cry is still with us, but the rollicking, seething, grand-gesture atmosphere of the goldfields is elusive. Now, in this book, we can grasp it through the adventures and songs of balladeer Charles Thatcher - itinerant minstrel, showman, and raconteur of events current, extraordinary, and scandalous. Robert Hoskins describes the effvesecent goldfields and the affairs of the equally effervescent Thatcher with a style to match.' (from the cover)