Mining Towns

<p>At any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This timely book is a history of the iconic Australian towns that arose with these booms over a century: Broken Hill Mount Isa Queenstown Mount Morgan Port Pirie and Kambalda. <em>Mining Towns</em> shows the rich cultural and historical legacy these towns helped create as townspeople – those working below the ground and those above – sought to make their lives in them. The current ‘fly-in-fly-out’ mining culture means we may not see the likes of them again which as this book shows will be a great loss.</p>