The Prospector

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Food is not complimentary on board and can be bought at the buffet. The buffet offers a variety of items such as ham and cheese croissants, pies, muffins, soft drinks, potato chips, lollies and alcohol. [6] [7] In 1968, Comeng, Granville were awarded a contract to build eight WAGR WCA/WCE class railcars. [2] [4] [9] New 'world-class' Goldfields and Avon trains move closer Government of Western Australia 7 December 2000

I liked the writing especially the descriptions of the Klondike. This a family saga with dual time lines, the 1880’s and present. I found it interesting that the main characters are based on the author’s family and other real people. Even though I get the connections between the present and past stories, I felt removed from the present story. Maybe there wasn’t enough of it told to connect to the characters. I didn’t know much about them. Having said that, the recent story does put emphasis on the wrongs done to First Nations people which is an important take away of the novel. I loved this historical family saga about relationships, while striking gold in the Yukon. Clarence Bailey, eldest son of a poor California family leaves California with a few provisions, and treks his way on foot to Canada. Clarence strikes gold and sends for his brother, Ethel his wife, and male workers to join him.a b c Dunn, John (2010). Comeng A History of Commonwealth Engineering Volume 3 1966-1977. Rosenberg Publishing. pp.77–91. ISBN 9781877058905. Higham, Geoffrey (2007). Marble Bar to Mandurah: A history of passenger rail services in Western Australia. Bassendean: Rail Heritage WA. p.121. ISBN 978-0-9803922-0-3. Clarence’s sister in law Alice, accompanies the men to to keep house in their cabin at the icy Canadian camp. Alice is to tend to her ill sister Ethel. Alice is outraged when Clarence hires attractive Jane, a First Nation woman to live in and cook. Clarence and Alice have a love hate relationship and each have secrets kept from each other and from Ethel.

All in all, had a couple hang-ups but it was a solid read about a historical period that you don’t see too often around here on Booksta. Would recommend giving it a try! There is one train each way daily between East Perth and Kalgoorlie. On Mondays and Fridays, there are two services each way. [5] Onboard facilities [ edit ]

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Alice joins her already wealthy sister and brother-in-law up north, in a time where few women made the trek and none were listened to with respect. She’s a complex character, loyal to her family but also ambitious and prejudiced. ⁣I never really liked her, or many of the other characters in the past. She began to seem more and more greedy, unsatisfied with whatever her current situation was. The adventure elements of this story were spot-on, and many of the complex dynamics wrapped up in both the Bush and Berry families were compelling. Amid the wealth that the central family came into, siblings and parents and children find they can no longer fully trust one another, have to tread carefully in their words and in the arrangements they agree to. Flash forward to 2015, and Clarence’s elderly, wealthy, great nephew, enlists his granddaughter to go to the Yukon and settle some bad blood with a First Nation family. Free wi-fi trial begins on Transwa's Prospector train". Public Transport Authority of Western Australia. 29 August 2022. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023 . Retrieved 15 October 2023. And yet, Alice thought, what was so spectacular about one culture subsuming another? It was a process as old as civilization. As old as Egypt and older. As old as Jerusalem, Persia, Mesopotamia, the Aztecs, the Ancient Egyptians. As old as all the peoples that had crashed together and changed through time, without leaving a record, not as much as one course mark etched into stone.

I will also give the heads-up — it’s unsurprising given the subject matter, but — there is quite a lot of conversation around the issues of discrimination, displacement, and racial resentment during this period and continuing into today. I think the author did well in terms of providing a view into a variety of different forms of discrimination: some characters flat-out didn’t trust the Indigenous population, some patronized them, and some in the present-day narrative, arguably, went too far and assumed too much in their efforts to be sensitive to the past. However, I did feel that all of these interwoven viewpoints and challenges were very much “told” to the reader, rather than “shown,” and felt a bit forced or stilted. I don’t remember reading about the Gold Rush in a novel and definitely not in the Klondike. This is a fascinating adventure story. I’m not very adventurous and perhaps that’s why I found it appealing. Gold, then later to oil, a man and his wife find their fortune in the Klondike and that fortune breeds greed, ambition, deceit, manipulation and some truly unlikeable characters .The women retire to the powder room to decide what to do. Clara sees no reason to abandon their usual procedure. Even though their hosts are dead: a b May, Andrew S; Gray, Bill (2006). A History of WAGR Passenger Carriages. Midland, WA: Bill Gray. pp.304–311. ISBN 0646459023.

The counterpoint is set in 2015, with Alice’s great-great-granddaughter traveling to the Klondike to try to make amends with the First Nations people who were wronged. ⁣ A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush a b TravelFlow (27 August 2016), TransWA Prospector REVIEW: Perth - Kalgoorlie SEAT/FOOD/SCENERY, archived from the original on 21 December 2021 , retrieved 8 April 2018 Yukon Gold Rush? Family drama? Moral questions about wealth and responsibility and manifest destiny? Sign me up!Based on the author's great grandmother's memoir this is a tale of danger, adventure and greed in Alaska's Yukon Territory. 1895 Yukon is no place for a woman let alone two but that is where Alice follows her sister after the family hits a major gold vein. Alice yearns to escape from home and is eager to find adventure but gets frustrated that her role is little more than housekeeper and companion to her fragile sister. When a major theft happens and the suspects, a native brother and sister, are not reported Alice takes matters into her own hands. She further asserts herself by marrying her brother in law bonding the two families twice over. With great wealth should come great responsibility but as we see in two generations this is not the case. A fascinating account of adventure, success at incredible odds, greed and who has rightful ownership of the land and its riches.