"Chinkie's Flat" by Louis Becke is a novel set in the gold mining town of Chinkie's Flat, North Queensland, showing the hard realities of life in the outback and transformations as it addresses prosperity, decline, and cultural clashes. The story follows Edward Grainger, a prospector seeing potential in an abandoned gold-crushing battery to revive the fortunes of the forgotten township. Chinkie's Flat is once vividly established as a desolate mining hub where the "Ever Victorious" battery and its former owner, "Taeping," capture the bustling success of the town, while also hinting as the racial tensions emerge. The arrival of Grainger brings sparks of hope, as he seeks to refurnish the dreams and battery of those whom seek out gold. The beginning sets up the contrast between greed and survival, while introducing key characters that will shape the struggles to come.
"Chinkie's Flat" 1904
By Louis Becke
In a desolate gold-mining town, a determined prospector arrives, seeking to revive its lost glory but stirs up racial tensions and struggles in the process.
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About the AuthorGeorge Lewis Becke was at the turn of the nineteenth century, the most prolific, significant, and internationally renowned Australian-born writer of the South Pacific region. Having lived and worked among Pacific Islands and Islanders as a trader, ship's supercargo, and villager for some two decades, learning languages and observing natural and cultural life, Becke was prompted by J F Archibald of The Bulletin to write down his experiences, eventually becoming a popular and respected author of short stories, novellas, novels, as well as historic and ethnographic works.
George Lewis Becke was at the turn of the nineteenth century, the most prolific, significant, and internationally renowned Australian-born writer of the South Pacific region. Having lived and worked among Pacific Islands and Islanders as a trader, ship's supercargo, and villager for some two decades, learning languages and observing natural and cultural life, Becke was prompted by J F Archibald of The Bulletin to write down his experiences, eventually becoming a popular and respected author of short stories, novellas, novels, as well as historic and ethnographic works.
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