Gold rushes transformed California and Australia within a few years in the
mid-19th century. Millions of Argonauts and diggers came to rip their fortune
from the land. It was not a pretty sight. But with them, as Ian Tyrrell records
in True Gardens of the Gods, came landscape gardeners anxious to recreate Eden
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