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The wild stories of gold and the Australian outback from a young woman defying male conventions in pursuit of the mother lode
If you havent seen a Discovery Channel goldhunting show you might picture a gold prospector as a relic of the Wild West a TNTtoting bearded old man wildly swinging a pick on the hunt for nuggets guided by old maps superstition legends and instinct Its still predominantly a mans world and still often fanatical but these days the golden dream attracts people from all walks of life and 25yearold Tyler Mahoney Australian star of the Discovery Channels Gold Rush series is leading the way
Hailing from Kalgoorlie Tyler is a fourthgeneration gold miner and has seen up close how gold fever makes normally reasonable people do the most irrational things From mysterious corpses in the desert to huge heists backstabbings to lifechanging finds Tyler unearths hairraising stories and legends from Australias gold prospecting past and present while sharing her experience forging her way in a traditionally male domain She writes candidly about the push and pull of the gold world in her own life as well as her struggles with bipolar disorder a mentalhealth challenge that in some ways parallels the feastorfamine nature of prospecting itself
With humour grit and an infectious zest for life gold digger Tyler Mahoney stakes her claim