Author: PYKE, WILLIAM THOMAS; Editor.
Title: Australian Heroes And Adventurers.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. [vi], vii-152 (last blank), 16 pages advertisements; 1 map, 8 illustrations; original green cloth, title in gilt on spine, gilt title and illustration on front board, brown paper on spine, head and tail of spine bumped, good copy. London, Walter Scott, 1889. Melbourne Cole, Book Arcade, 1889. Ferguson 14541a. The book is divided into two main sections, Burke and Wills -Two heroes of Exploration; and Old Times on thh Gold-Fields. This part contains an account of the Eureka Stockade Riots.

Keywords: Australian local history mining Victoria discovery exploration gold mining mines