pp. 415, illusts. Note: View image for damage to jacket. Internals sound, intact, complete and tight. A scarce item of West Australiana, ideally suited to be rebound. #1217 The author of this narrative claims to have written it in twenty-five days. Discursive and disjointed, it is a jumble of personal reminiscence, history, interviews and quotations from other sources, notably John Marshall’s Battling for gold. Nevertheless, it conveys something of the excitement of the eastern goldfields …”