Kal
By: Judy Nunn.
Edition: Arrow ed.
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9781741665963
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Kalgoorlie-Boulder (W.A.) -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Australia -- Kalgoorlie-Boulder (W.A.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.; Kalgoorlie-Boulder (W.A.) -- Fiction.; Australia -- History -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Kalgoorlie was a magnet to anyone with a sense of adventure, anyone who could dream. People were drawn there from all over the world, settling to start afresh or to seek their fortunes. They called it Kal. In a story as breathtaking and as sweeping as the land itself, bestselling author Judy Nunn brings Kal magically to life through the lives of two families, one Australian and one Italian. The Australian family are the Brearleys: Maudie, who runs the miners' pub in Kalgoorlie and who was brought up in a tent on the goldfields; her husband 'Flash Harry' Brearley, charismatic conman and shyster; and his young son, Jack.  The Italian family are the Giannis, railway workers from a small village in the Italian Alps, who dream of making a better life for themselves 'at the bottom of the world' after they hear about the Western Australian goldrush of the late 1880s.
Notes: "First published by Random House Australia 1996, This Arrow edition published 2006, 2007"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Bk. 1: The migrants; title: bk. 2: The miners; title: bk. 3: The soldiers.