Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph's mother Lillian, emigrate to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity in the mid-19th century gold rush. This novel tells the story of their quest for the impossible and their attempts to mine the complexities of love.
"Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to Christchurch in search of new beginnings and prosperity. When Joseph finds gold, the taste of possible riches, becomes an obsession."
"Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, along with Joseph's mother Lillian, emigrate to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity in the mid-19th century gold rush. This novel tells the story of their quest for the impossible and their attempts to mine the complexities of love."@en
"Fabulous historical novel set against the background of the gold rush in New Zealand in the mid-19th century. 'The colour' is miners' slang for gold."@en
"[This] novel is a saga of love and greed set during the mid-nineteenth-century gold rush in New Zealand. Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England, along with Joseph's mother, Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of the color, rush to their destinies. Harriet decides to pursue her own journey toward an uncertain future. But nothing has prepared her for what happens to her when she arrives at the gold diggings. Amid squalor and confusion, burning heat and icy flood, Harriet comes face-to-face with the true cost of desire. Beautifully written, hauntingly evocative, and by turns both moving and terrifying, The Color is the story of a quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and in the process discover what it is that makes men and women happy.-Dust jacket."
"Een Engels echtpaar emigreert omstreeks 1865 naar Nieuw-Zeeland in de hoop het daar beter te krijgen; de vondst van goud geeft hen beiden een nieuwe bestemming."
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