Letters from a Miner in Australia ( Lettres d’un mineur en Australie.)

MINING AUSTRALIANA –

Personal account describing Melbourne and the Victorian goldfields at the height of the goldrush in the 1850s by the French photographer, Antoine Fauchery ; occasional references to squatters’ treatment of Aboriginal people.

The book was first published in French, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1857. This edition of the book was translated from the French by A R Chisholm.

• xxv, 105 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. First Edition thus.

• • Settlement and contacts – Settlers
  • Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1851-
  • Mining industry – Gold
  • Occupations – Miners
  • Ballarat (W Vic SJ54-08)
  • Castlemaine (Vic SJ55-05)
  • Melbourne (Vic SJ55-05)

  • • Fauchery, Antoine, 1823-1861 — Correspondence
    • Gold miners — Victoria — Correspondence
    • Gold mines and mining — Victoria
    • Victoria — Description and travel
    • Melbourne (Vic.) — Description and travel