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SECOND HAND BOOK
A book on the social history of the western district of Victoria spanning over the two generations, from the arrival of young men seeking wealth in a strange land to the last decade of the nineteenth century which was the sunset of their nostalgic reconstruction of the old world
Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Publisher: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1961 reprint, 1983
xviii + 573pp., colour frontis., b/w plates, ep maps, bibliog., index, Social history of the sons of Lowland Scottish settlers who became the Squattocracy; the lives of station hands & itinerant pastoral workers & the effect of the gold rush on communities in Western Victoria. Dust jacket rather faded but a nice copy. Nice copy octavo.
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