Letters from a miner in Australia / by Antoine Fauchery ; translated from the French by A.R. Chisholm ; with drawings by Ron Edwards
- Bib ID:
- 595246
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fauchery, Antoine, 1823-1861
- Uniform Title:
- Lettres d'un mineur en Australie. English
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Georgian House, 1965
- xxv, 105 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
- Summary:
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Personal account describing Melbourne and the Victorian goldfields at the height of the goldrush in the 1850s ; occasional references to squatters' treatment of Aboriginal people.
- Notes:
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- Original ed. published Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1857.
- Translation of: Lettres d'un mineur en Australie.
- Library's HSW copy contains tipped in a copy of a letter from H.S. Williams to Professor A.R. Chisholm, and short note to H.S. Williams from Alan Queale about a cppy of the book listed in a catalogue.
- Subject:
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- Fauchery, Antoine, 1823-1861 -- Correspondence
- Gold miners -- Victoria -- Correspondence
- Gold mines and mining -- Victoria
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Mining industry - Gold
- Occupations - Miners
- Victoria -- Description and travel
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Description and travel
- Ballarat (W Vic SJ54-08)
- Castlemaine (Vic SJ55-05)
- Melbourne (Vic SJ55-05)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2035 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1861
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1965
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