Grasping at Shadows: Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine by Heather Nimmo | PB Anthology The stories of mountains may

The stories of mountains may be set in stone but they reveal change we can scarcely imagine

each one helping to form and shape a unique Australian voice

But did they know of the dangers

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Grasping at Shadows: Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine by Heather Nimmo | PB Anthology The stories of mountains mayHeather Nimmos engaging book is a chain of reminiscences as well as the story of the swift rise and fall of the gallant mining field called Balfour. Of the hundreds of books on the history of our mining fields, this is the only one I know which so neatly combines these two ingredients of history and memoir. ~ Professor Geoffrey Blainey In 1975, a young Adelaide teacher, who wanted to write for the theatre, fell in love with a geologist and followed