Peter CrabbDr Peter Crabb is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University, Canberra. He has taught at universities in Australia, Canada, and England, and has published extensively in the fieldof natural resource and environmental management. His focus has been on water resources in inter-jurisdictional river basins, especially the Murray-Darling Basin. Writing this biography has been a very different undertaking, taking him into new fields of study, especially the histories of the nineteenth century goldfields in Colonial New South Wales and Victoria and the work of the contemporary newspaper reporters. de Boos is an outstanding example of such people, but he was not alone, as indicated by published research on two others, Frederick Dalton and John Hux. And there is a link to the author's prime interest in environmental matters in the frequent reporting by de Boos of the damage done to land and water resources by gold mining and land clearing. Read More Read Less