Gold: The Remarkable Story of Edward Hammond Hargraves – Charlatan, Imposter and Self-Proclaimed Discoverer of Gold in Australia [full stream]

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Ask Google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you’ll promptly get ‘Edward Hammond Hargraves’. Hargraves has for decades received the fame, fortune and adulation from all corners of the country, but did he earn it? What about the two diggers he met on the Californian goldfields who told him where to look when he returned home to Australia?

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