Author: ROBINSON, WILLIAM ASHTON COOMER.
Title: Truth Stranger Than Fiction: A Miscellany Of Interesting, Instructive, And Startling Facts, Gathered In This And The Old Country, From Personal Observation; With Moral Comments On The Same.
Description: 8vo; pp. xii, 204, +8 pp. of ads; recent blue leather binding; new blue endpapers; blue speckles to page edges; bookplate on fixed endpaper; some water discolouration to top part of early pages not effecting text, foxing to pages; pages start at title page; a good copy. Melbourne, Mason & Firth Printers, MDCCCLXI [1861]. Subjects include early local histories of Victoria and Melbourne including, Melbourne Police Courts, effects of chinese immigration; Pretty Sally Hills naming, Ovens diggings, Bushrangers, Goldfields, Reid's Creek, Aborigines, and more from America and England. Ferguson 15008.

Keywords: victoria Melbourne australia canada britain Pretty Sally Hills Ovens diggings goldfields mining Bushrangers Goldfields Reid's Creek Aboriginal history