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This work is a 'ficto-critical look at an unusual example of diaspora where over a period of more than 100 years a small but continuous stream of Valtellinesi working men (from Lombardy valley in north Italy) and their wives and families - the latter following the breadwinner years later in most cases - migrated from what was in those days one of the poorest areas in the Italian Alps to find a new life. They began working at first in the gold-mining industry in Western Australia.' (Source: Author's introduction, Southerly, 2011)
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An Aspect of Valtellinese Diaspora : Lombardy to Western Australia (1895-1960) - 'The Entombed Miner, Easter 1907'
Southerly
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An Aspect of Valtellinese Diaspora : Lombardy to Western Australia (1895-1960) - 'The Entombed Miner, Easter 1907'
Subjects:
- Near Death Experience, No. 1 (The Entombed Miner, Easter 1907) 2001- single work poetry
- The Boys Who Stole the Funeral : A Novel Sequence 1980 single work novel
- Fredy Neptune 1998 single work novel
- From the Mountains to the Bush : Italian Migrants Write Home from Australia, 1860-1962 2001 selected work correspondence essay
- The Shifting Heart 1957 single work drama
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Lombardy,
cItaly,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- Goldfields area, Southeast Western Australia, Western Australia,
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