{"product_id":"pickle-bottle-hill-9781763763500","title":"Pickle Bottle Hill","description":"\u003cp\u003e1974 and the Palmer River Goldfield is roaring. Chinese miners flood in, indentured laborers, working for a tong, panning gold to honor a family debt. Their gold will go home to China. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung Fou Yei, a pretty, Eurasian girl, is in the service of brothel owner Miss Kate, that is until George Colley steps in and buys her bond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Fou Yei belongs to George until she can repay the debt, and an uneasy relationship develops between the pair. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether they mine George's successful claim on the Palmer until they are drawn into the politics of Chinese\/ European tensions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFou Yei intervenes when a tong leader is being brutalized by a European miner. George intervenes but is knocked unconscious in the struggle and loses contact with Fou Yei.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe finds her in a Joss House where Chinese miners have taken the injured tong leader. George saves the man but wants no part of the Chinese community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brutality of the attack adds to George's determination to turn his back on the Palmer rush and to seek the source of its gold and keep that discovery secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFou Yei and George begin a search which takes them to a spot sacred to the local aboriginal people. George discovers the reef, the source of the gold and collets ore samples. he is confronted by three warriors, who kill him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFou Yei flees, finds her way back to the diggings and is cared for by the Chinese community. There she has George's baby and eventually returns to China a wealthy woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne hundred and twenty years later, Chinese gold returns to Australia with the fabulously wealthy Ophelia Lau. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe vows to have the stories of Chinese humiliation on the goldfield, like that of Fou Yei, erased from the history books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In modern Australia, Chinese money talks, and Ophelia sets out to find willing Australian allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Personal Public Relations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781763763500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Nicol","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44792570839221,"sku":"9781763763500","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_69d5a965-4b0e-413c-8286-66fca731049f.jpg?v=1731426653","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pickle-bottle-hill-9781763763500","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}