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Issue Details: First known date: 1888... 1888 Tom's Nugget : A Story of the Australian Gold Fields
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According to Marcie Muir, the book is concerned with an eight-year-old narrator named Tom: 'The book is set in the Victorian diggings of "Bendiggerat", and Tom is obsessed with the desire to see the "ornithorhynchus paradoxus". When poking around the sandy bank of a creek he finds a large nugget, which he covers with sand until he can bring his father to help him move it. But when they reach the spot, it is gone, and Tom realizes a bushranger had been watching him and had stolen it. The story revolves around the attempt to recover the nugget and Tom's involvement with the bushrangers and the troopers' ('The Lure of Gold: Boy's Adventure Stories and the Australian Gold Rushes' 93).

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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Sunday School Union ,       1888 .
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      Link: 8502274Full text document AustLit Full Text
      Extent: 292p.
      Description: illus.
      Reprinted: 1903 3rd ed. , 1900 2nd ed.
      Note/s:
      • Digitised by AustLit from the 2nd print edition (1900), 2009, from the collection of the NLA.
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Works about this Work

From Canvas Town to Marvellous Melbourne : Melbourne in Colonial Children's Novels Pam Macintyre , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 74-83)
The Lure of Gold : Boy's Adventure Stories and the Australian Gold Rushes Marcie Muir , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 84-96)
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Subjects:
Settings:
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Geelong, Geelong City - Geelong East area, Geelong area, Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria,
  • Victoria,
  • 1850s
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