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Land, Labour, and Gold - Two Years in Victoria: with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land (Paperback)
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Land, Labour, and Gold - Two Years in Victoria: with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land (Paperback)
Series: Land, Labour, and Gold 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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In 1852 William Howitt (1792 1879) set sail for Australia with two
of his sons in order to try his luck in the goldfields of Victoria.
By then he was already a prolifically published author of both
prose and verse. He was only moderately successful as a
gold-digger, but his account of life in the new colony, published
in 1855 after his return to England, provides an extraordinary
snapshot of the rapid early growth of Melbourne. Volume 1 covers
Howitt's first impressions of Australia, his experiences on the
journey to the diggings at Bendigo, the throngs of prospectors, the
exorbitant prices charged by profiteering merchants, and the
miners' protest over high government licence fees. He describes the
hard life endured by the diggers and warns against women coming to
the colony.
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