ISBN: 9780522845860 - the eureka stockade-3rd ed (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. 1993. xix,181pp. "In Australia's folk memory, one event will forever stand as the great example of courage and resistance to authority: the Eureka Stockade. On the Ballarat goldfields, at dawn on December 3, 1854, 120 angry miners fought 276 police and soldiers in 'our own little rebellion'. The miners had risen in revolt against what they felt was a harsh and oppressive government. When the firing died down, five of the troops and thirty miners lay dead among the ruins of the Stockade, and a legend was about to be born. Here is the only full-length eyewitness account of the Eureka Stockade, published a year after the uprising, written by an Italian revolutionary who wrote the book to 'set the record straight'." The book is in excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean.…