A Yankee Merchant in Gold Rush Australia. The Letters of George Francis Train

Book Description

Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1970 First edition. With an introductory sketch of his life and notes by E. Daniel and Annette Potts. xxx, 204pp. Frontis portrait, notes, index. Maroon boards, gilt lettering on spine and front cover. A fine copy in lightly soiled and spine-faded and price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. During the Australian gold rush (early 1850's), the author of these letters, at the age of only 24, conducted a lucrative commission business in Melbourne, acted as agent for the famous White Star Line of Liverpool, was active in community affairs, and visited Geelong and the surrounding goldfields, Sydney, and Tasmania..

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