This is a decolonised retelling of the famous story of the Klondike
Gold Rush set against the powerful backdrop of the Yukon valley
with forbidding mountains and rickety railway tracks cutting
through the snow. This book shines a light for the first time on
Shaaw Tláa (Kate Cormack), the First Nations woman who first
discovered the gold that led 100,000 gold diggers to descend on the
region. In the book children will learn about how gold was
discovered and possessed the popular imagination, the towns that
popped up overnight, the treacherous journeys people made to cross
the forbidding Yukon landscape, the building of epic railways and
the resilience and injustices experienced by the first nations
people whose towns became inundated by gold-diggers and the legacy
of the Gold Rush. Flora Delargy’s style takes in minute and
exhilarating non-fiction details, from the beautifully rendered
train tickets and maps of the mountains, diagrams of railway
bridges, step-by-step look at how to pan for gold to breathtaking
illustrations of the Yukon mountains.
General
| Imprint: |
WideEyed Editions
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Hidden Histories |
| Release date: |
October 2024 |
| Authors: |
Flora Delargy
|
| Dimensions: |
290 x 235mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
80 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7112-6387-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-7112-6387-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780711263871 |
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