Book Chat: Craig Cormick - Going Gold Crazy
2pm Saturday 19 November
Julie Long OAM, President of the CBCA ACT, launches Craig Cormick's latest book What If Histories of Australia - Colonial Settlement.
We are super excited to be hosting the launch by Julie Long OAM of local Canberra author Craig Cormick's latest book What If Histories of Australia - Gold Rush: Going Gold Crazy.
The What If Histories of Australia imagines a very different history of Australia, where the unexpected happens in unexpected ways. Starting by defining the real histories, the book then looks at possible paths of different settlements that history could have taken.
Beautifully illustrated by Cheri Hughes, this book will get kids thinking what if.... history had taken a different turn?? A great way to learn history but also to promote imagination.
Gold Fever is what makes ordinary people act like completely crazy people . And there are plenty of examples of that in this book!
We all know that gold makes people act a bit crazy - but imagine just how crazy things would be if the 19th Century Australian colonies were all run by different countries.
The French in modern day Victoria and British in modern day New South Wales would be busy coming up with crazy plans to steal each other's gold.
And indigenous people, diggers and bushrangers would have their own plans as to who should get the gold. As would a peculiar bushranger in armour, with plans to start a new Irish republic.
A very different and amusing look at the alternative paths that Australian history might have taken.
Craig Cormick is an award-winning author and science communicator, with a special interest in history. He has lived in Iceland and Finland and has travelled to Antarctica four times – though he really prefers the tropics. He has written over 30 books for adults and children and he enjoys messing with history just about as much as history enjoys messing with him. Gold Rush is the second in the What If Histories of Australia series. Colonial Settlement was the first.
Cheri Hughes was born in Japan and raised in both the U.S. and Japan. She studied design in Japan and specialises in illustration. Even as a small child, and prior to any studies, she always knew what she would be doing and that involved creating a world through visual interpretation. Cheri illustrated two books with author Robert Vescio (Big Sky Publishing) Barnaby and the Lost Treasure of Bunnyville and Ella Saw the Tree. Her first was No Matter Who We’re With.
Venue
The Book Cow Bookshop
Lava Espresso Bar, Eyre Street Markets
34 Eyre Street
Kingston, ACT 2604