MARCH TO BIG GOLD MOUNTAIN

by David Horsfall

A$45 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Pp. viii+184 last blank , text illustrations, references, index; pictorial glazed papered boards; Red Rooster Press, Melbourne, 1985. First edition. *The story of marathon walks by Chinese immigrants, from South Australia to the central Victorian goldfields, in order to avoid the provisions of a Victorian Act of 1855 which sought to drastically limit Chinese immigration. The Act restricted the number of crew and passengers on each ship bringing Chinese into Victoria, and stipulated that

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