The true story of two men, Burke and Wills, who set off from Melbourne in 1860 to conquer the "ghastly blank" of central Australia, but were never to return. Alan Moorehead describes what happened to them on that fated expedition and the physical and mental torments as the men pushed themselves to their furthest limits.
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Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne in 1910. He came to England in 1937, an made a world-wide reputation as a journalist and war correspondent, and since the war, as the writer of a remarkable series of vivid reconstructions of historical events.
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