Title My life on a tropic goldfield / by J.H. Binnie ; foreword by A.H. Chisholm

Published Melbourne : Bread and Cheese Club, 1944

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
ADPML SPC	919.438 Bin/Mlo		LIB USE ONLY

Description 44 pages ; 19 cm regular print Summary Story includes traveling through Aboriginal land to get to the goldfields and fears of the "wild" Aboriginal people, especially at night. Stories of violence between the Aboriginal and European and Chinese people working the goldfields Notes Library's 1st Whelan copy has a slip, "For the Whelan Collection Bread & Cheese Club" tipped in; 2nd copy is signed by the author in ink. ANL Digital master available ; Subject Children -- Australia -- Queensland -- Personal narratives. Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Queensland. SUBJECT Palmer Goldfield (Qld.) Palmer River Goldfield (Qld.) Palmer River Goldfields (Qld.) -- 1876-1882 -- Personal narratives Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 Author Bread and Cheese Club (Melbourne, Vic.), issuing body LC no. 00899107

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