David Ian Groves
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Headlines are made when a gold discovery that is claimed to be Lasseter's legendary lost reef is made by the international company Krennerite Gold Corp. This is the most fabled lost gold reef in Australia's long mining and exploration history, purported to have been discovered more than a century before. James Buchanan, a world-famous exploration geologist is intrigued because the region of the rediscovery is not known as a gold-bearing district but...
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A rumour re-emerges about the fabled King Solomon's mines, a legend about fabulously rich gold mines in Africa, immortalized in novels and movies. James Buchanan, an exploration geologist in Tanzania, who has already solved the mystery of the 'plagues' in America to help US President Caitlin Custer to prevent a national disaster, sets out to investigate.
James soon realizes from his research on gold mines in the Middle East and North Africa that...
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Daisy Dikdocks and her best friend, Murray, are off to Australia to stay with her aunt and uncle, Suzanne and David, in Canberra. Their farewell with the members of their gang involves an exchange of gifts which results in railway and airport dramas that even reach the TV news.
Daisy and Murray enjoy their Qantas flight from Singapore without Daisy's mum but cannot resist playing pranks on their fellow passengers while always appearing so innocent....