Australia's greatest adventure story,
       and its greatest mystery...



Somewhere is the vast centre of the Australian continent there lies a reef of gold, seven miles long. Recorded history will tell you that only one whiteman has ever seen it.

The story of Lewis Herbert Bell Lasseter's reef of gold and his strange disapperance in 1930 has, in a mere seventy-five years, assumed the proportions of a timeless legend.

Did Lasseter die in the Central Australian Desert, and his secret with him? Or was it, as some think, an elaborate hoax? Did the reef exist only in Lasseter's imagination?

We might never know all the answers, but the search for the reef goes on, and the quest for gold endures. Billy Marshall Stoneking is a poet, playwright and freelance film producer and writer. He lived for four years in 'Lasseter country', among the Pintupi people at Papunya Settlement in the Northern Territory, and was given access to information previously known only to the local Aborigines.

Read his account of the Lasseter story in his best-selling book, Lasseter: In Quest of Gold, published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Also see Whitefella Dreaming for more info on Billy Marshall Stoneking's book and the enduring legend behind the Lasseter story and other tales of lost treasures.

For more information, email Billy Marshall Stoneking.

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