Gold Rush: The untold story of the First Nations women who started the Klondike Gold Rush

Written and illustrated by Northern Irish artist Flora Delargy, the award-winning illustrator of , this exquisitely illustrated story of quiet bravery tells, in rich detail, how Shaaw Tláa (Kate Cormack), a First Nations woman, . Set against the powerful backdrop of the Yukon valley, with , this stunning book and how it possessed the popular imagination. It explores the towns that popped up overnight, the treacherous journeys people made to cross the forbidding Yukon landscape, the building of epic railways, and the resilience and injustices experienced by the First Nations people whose towns became inundated by gold-diggers and the legacy of the Gold Rush. Flora Delargy’s style takes in minute and exhilarating non-fiction details, from the beautifully rendered train tickets and maps of the mountains, diagrams of railway bridges, a , to breathtaking illustrations of the Yukon mountains.