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Synopsis
Relating the facts behind the myth, this eyewitness account tells the vivid and accurate story of the horrific 1854 Eureka Stockade, a revolt against police and soldiers involving 120 miners from the Ballart gold mines in Australia that left 35 dead and a legacy of courage and freedom that has shaped ideas of Australian nationhood ever since.
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Raffaello Carboni was an accomplished writer and composer and a celebrated Italian revolutionary.
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'. . . merits being 'prescribed' reading in every Australian school, and self-prescribed reading for every Australian citizen' Brian Fitzpatrick -- (Brian Fitzpatrick, rev.)
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- PublisherMelbourne University Publishing
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0522851509
- ISBN 13 9780522851502
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
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Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 2004 (first published 1855)., 2005
ISBN 10: 0522851509
ISBN 13: 9780522851502
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Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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20.0 x 13.0cms, 182pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper When 120 goldminers fought 276 policemen and soldiers on 3 December 1854, 5 troops and 30 miners died. This is the only eye-witness account of that iconic incident. Seller Inventory # 191465
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