Author: Burrows, William.
Title: Adventures of a Mounted Trooper [Victoriana Collection].
Description: [Melbourne, Carlton] Queensberry Hill Press, 1986. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, very good plus condition, full brown leather cover (boards gilt stamped), spine is ribbed (gilt lettering), brown endpapers, tipped-in sepia (brown-tinted) drawing frontispiece, in cardboard slipcase. 146 pp. A facsimile of a book published in 1859 (Ferguson 7722). The adventures of a Victorian mounted trooper, William Burrows, who arrived in Melbourne in 1852, then went to the goldfields. He becomes a roadmaker, then a mounted trooper inspecting mining licenses. Mentions Geelong steamers, Aborigines, William Buckley, colonial life, and a return voyage to China. (Copy 67 of a limited edition of 155 copies. No date, but 1986, Trove.) ISBN: 0909174466

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