Author: PEIRCE, AUGUSTUS BAKER.
Title: Knocking About. Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Pierce in Australia. Edited by Mrs. Albert Leatherbee. Illustrations by the Writer.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xviii (last page blank), 176 (last page blank); b/w frontispiece, numerous drawings (some full-page others within the text), index; original red cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine and corners bumped, a good copy. New Haven, Yale University press, 1924. The author Travelling before the mast in 1859 on the Oriental he arrives at Melbourne where he braves the large number of shark fins and swims a mile to shore at Saint Kilda Beach and goes to the diggings at Bendigo, a paddle the start of the Hill End rush, Ned Kelly, Aboriginal skeleton and kangaroo dances, steamer on the Murray, joins a theatrical group, Harry Power, Morgan the bushrangers and much more including murderess Maria Needles who is hung.

Keywords: Australian local murray history South Australia New South Wales shipmasters biography inland water transportation Victoria bushrangers aborigines maritime