Gold Down Under

Relates how the Gold Rush in California led Edward Hargraves to discover gold in Australia and traces the subsequent frantic period of Australian history.

An African-American fiction story about a family that lived in Crosby Tx and later discovered oil on their Land, Witness how two young boys were in their backyard playing when one of the boys took a shovel and accidentally struck a pipe that was running beneath the ground, And oil came gushing forth, During this time thier father had just lost his job so he had to think of a way to earn money to feed his family, So he decides to hire an attorney about the oil that was found in his backyard, So as they show up for court, They actually win thier case and the judge awards the family with one hundred million dollars, with two million a year in royalties for the rest of his life, but shortly after so much good takes place the father loses his wife Diane to cancer and is now left to raise their two boys on his own, So as life goes on without the mother, One of the sons by the name of Jesse graduates from high school then gets enrolled in The University of Houston where he then meets a friend named Abdullah, And this kid just so happens to be the son of the wealthiest man in Africa!

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

As Joseph Burbidge comes to discover, finding gold in Canada's North is less than half the battle.

With their parents in trouble once again, the Kidds must traverse the Australian Outback, recover a pair of stolen gems, and defeat treasure-hunting pirates to save them! The Kidd family is on their way to Australia to find Lasseter's Gold when they are challenged by fellow treasure hunter Charlotte Badger, who challenges them to a race to the gold! But when the Kidds pull into port in Australia, their parents are suddenly arrested—they've been framed! It turns out Charlotte Badger is a pirate, and she's planted a priceless stolen black opal on the Kidds' ship, The Lost! Now Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have seven days to traverse the Australian Outback, find Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and bring back the evidence that will prove their parents innocent. If they fail, their parents will be found guilty and thrown in prison . . . forever!