Author: Colebatch, Hal.
Title: Claude de Bernales the Magnificent Miner.
Description: Perth, Victoria Park Hesperian Press, 1996. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, top spine & corner rear cover creased, corners front cover little creased, minor edgewear, owner's written name title page. 323 pp. Hal Colebatch writes about Claude de Bernales who was a very enigmatic person. He saved the West Australian goldmining industry, and perhaps saved Western Australia itself from starvation in the Depression of the 1930s. He lived a lavish lifestyle in Western Australia and London. Suddenly he was commercially and financially annihilated. He was widely accused of fraud and misfeasance, but he was never prosecuted or brought to trial. The biography tells the story of his strange life and times and, using previously secret British documents, points to the hidden and unsuspected causes of his downfall. ISBN: 0859052001

Keywords: australian biography, australian history, earth sciences, mining, goldfields, western australia 0859052001


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