A Journey To Cooper's Creek (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) - Softcover

Beckler, Hermann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0522844847 ISBN 13: 9780522844849

Publisher: Melbourne University, 2024

Synopsis

First-hand accounts of the myth-laden Burke and Wills expedition are remarkably few, in contrast to the reams of subsequent commentary and conjecture. Wills's journal and statements by others in the party were published at the time, but little more.Hermann Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the expedition, wrote the only other substantial account, in his native German. The manuscript remained with his family for nearly a century. It is now published for the first time.This highly readable account, with drawings and maps, offers insights into the causes of the expedition's failurea "an ill-chosen leader and route, and inappropriate and excessive supplies. In increasingly desperate conditions Beckler collected and identified the native flora, and recorded vivid and positive descriptions of the landscape and the Aboriginal people. His acute observations indicate what might have been achieved had the expedition pursued its scientific brief.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Stephen Jeffries has researched a number of German travellers and settlers in nineteenth-century Australia.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 0522844847
• ISBN 13: 9780522844849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256