My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields - William Craig – First Edition 1903

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My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields – William Craig – First Edition 1903

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A first edition rarity of this important highly readable book about the Australian goldfields of the 19th century. Much about personal associations with bushrangers.

Octavo, 340 pages, plus a useful index and a lengthy publisher’s period catalogue. Published by Cassell, London, Melbourne etc. A near to very good copy.

Craig arrived in Australia from New Zealand to make his fortune and, after all, it's better here. He recounts his arrival and first days and then he is off to the Upper Wimmera. He joins a survey party and an adventure in the Bullarook Forest. His first search for Gold and the meeting of bushrangers (Melville) who when time was lean tended to procure their gold without a shovel. Dan Burns features – a man to keep on the right side of and then there is Black Harry … more gold including a horse shod in the gleaming metal (a yarn). The gold at Bendigo never stops, the Eureka Stockade and the strange “Mongolian Irruption”.

Written in a fulsome readable style with true first hand information of the goings on in an important aspect of Australian history.

Australian Goldfields and Bushrangers first hand from the second half of the 19thC.

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