Eureka Stockade by Richard Butler

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. A few foxing spots on foredges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Richard Butler's compelling narrative of rebellion on the goldfields.

On 3 December 1854 at the Eureka diggins near Ballarat, fourteen diggers and five British soldiers died in a fiece pitched battle beneath the diggers defiant standard, the flag of the Southern Cross.

Butler has brought to live the drama and its chief players - Peter Lalor, Alicia Dunne, Federick Vern and Rafaello Carboni.