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The Discovery of Australia's Interior
  • ISBN-13: 9781921203923
  • Publisher: WOODSLANE PRESS
    Imprint: WOODSLANE PRESS
  • By Derek Parker
  • Price: AUD $24.99
  • Stock: 33 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 22/09/2009
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 130.00mm) 240 pages Weight: 380g
  • Categories: Regional & national history [HBJ]
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In 1800, while the coast of Australia had finally been charted, the vast interior of the continent, and routes across its deserts and mountains from north to south and east to west lay all undiscovered. By 1874, its lands had been all but won. Derek Parkers new and exciting book gathers together the stories of those intrepid explorers who, often against great odds, on journeys of months or even years, beat starvation, inadequate information and mapping, disease and loss, to forge routes which would enable the countrys development. From early explorers, who were generally escaped convicts, to the son of a Lincolnshire surgeon who coined the name Australia; from explorers Major Mitchell, who slaughtered aborigines, to Sir George Grey, who learnt their language, recorded their culture and came to love and understand them; and from the greatest overland expedition in Australian history in 1844 to continued failed attempts to find a mythical inland sea, this is a fascinating read.

Author Derek Parker has been an editor and a critic, and is the author of eight previous biographies. He has co-authored with his wife Julia another 28 titles on various subjects, from astrology to travel.

Acknowledgements

Metric Conversation Table

List of Illustrations

Introduction

  • One: In the Beginning
  • Two: The Great Inland Sea
  • Three: Mapping the Rivers
  • Four: Australian Morning
  • Five: The Heroic Heart
  • Six: What for do you walk?
  • Seven: The Heart of the Dark Continent
  • Eight: Seven Months Underground
  • Nine: To the Very Centre
  • Ten: Unburied as I lie
  • Eleven: The Last Australian Explorer; Envoi

Maps

Notes

Bibliography

Index



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