The Golden Rock - Glanville, Ernest

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Résumé :
The Golden Rock is an ancient adventure and mystery story book written by Ernest Glanville. The tale is set inside the hard Australian Outback and follows a tough and short group of customers in their search for gold. The titular Golden Rock is a legendary gold nugget said to be hidden in a far flung geographical location. While traversing the tough terrain, the prospectors face some limits and risks. The tale delves into topics of greed, ambition, and the hunt of cash. Individuals are geared up with their unique reasons, secrets, techniques, techniques, strategies, and strategies. The tale is full of gripping surprises and sudden occasions that hold readers on the edge in their seats. Glanville's precise testimonies carry the Australian panorama to lifestyles, displaying sandy barren region plains and steep mountain facets. The try and search for the Golden Rock can be seemed as a metaphor for the protagonists' private trips and dreams. As the prospectors techniques their reason, tensions increase and alliances are examined. The narrative delves into the ethical quandaries surrounding gold rush strategies, showing the effect of greed on people further to society. The previously formerly movement-packed sequences of prospecting, mining, and survival add delight to the story.

Biographie:
Ernest Glanville (5 May 1855 in Wynberg - 6 September 1925 in Rondebosch) was a Cape Colony and subsequently South African author best known for his short stories, which are extensively read and taught in South Africa. He also written 17 historical books. Glanville studied at St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown from January 1869 to May 1871. His education was cut short when he and his father brought the first printing press from Grahamstown to Griqualand West by ox cart in 1870 and started running a newspaper in Kimberley. In addition to his literary accomplishments, he worked as a journalist for the Cape Argus and other newspapers, and he collaborated with Dr MacGowan on the 1905 Jubilee Hymn. He married Emma Priscilla Powell, and they had four children: Thomas Burt, Ada Hoole, John, and Denis Gordon.