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A Woman on the Goldfields. Recollections of Emily Skinner 1854-1878.
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A Woman on the Goldfields. Recollections of Emily Skinner 1854-1878. Hardcover - 1995

by Duyker, Edward (editor); Skinner, Emily

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Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995. 129pp, notes, few bw ills. Dark green cloth in jacket. Very light foxing to top edge. Emily Skinner not only kept a shipboard journal on her voyage to Australia in 1854, but later recorded her reminiscences of a colourful life as a gold miner's wife. Her impressions of a young Melbourne are follwoed by her recollections of what is now Beechworth and the surrounding goldfields of the Ovens Valley.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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  • Title A Woman on the Goldfields. Recollections of Emily Skinner 1854-1878.
  • Author Duyker, Edward (editor); Skinner, Emily
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 053431
  • ISBN 9780522846522 / 0522846521
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.3 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.76 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Australian
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
  • Library of Congress subjects Skinner, Emily, Pioneers - Australia - Victoria - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95213903
  • Dewey Decimal Code 994.55

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Edward Duyker is a full-time writer and historian. His books include Tribal Guerrillas, The Dutch in Australia, An Officer of the Blue and The Discovery of Tasmania. He is co-editor of Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753-1782.

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