Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria, with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land. Introd. by Prof. S. J. Butlin.

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Sydney U.P., (1972). 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket (slightly torn). (xvi, 398, 22pp.). With endpaper maps. Facsimile edition. 2 vols. in 1. Originally publ. London 1855. (Australian Historical Reprints Series). NOTE: Howitt's vivid reporting of his close observations of life in Melbourne, Bendigo, Ballarat and other goldfields produced one of the best and most accurate pictures of Australian life in the mid 19th century.