McCullough, Colleen The touch / Colleen McCullough - 520 pages Spanning nearly 50 years from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, 'The Touch' tells the story of Alexander Kinross who flees the poverty of Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and American gold fields. ISBN: 0712680519 Subjects--Topical Terms: Gold mines and mining--Fiction Index Terms--Genre/Form: Domestic fiction Dewey Class. No.: Fic