Memoirs of Gold-digging in AustraliaAutobiographical account of life on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, told from a Polish perspective ; includes observations about and encounters with Aboriginal people. |
Contents
This new country | 9 |
Melbourne and the road | 21 |
Digging for gold | 38 |
Copyright | |
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