The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition: An Account of the Crossing the Continent of Australia, from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria, Reprinted from "The Argus" [Australiana Facsimile Editions].
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia (LBSA), Adelaide, 1971
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Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, blue leatherette boards, gilt title spine, frontispiece portrait drawing, card cover bound in, fold-out map inside rear cover, small owner's written name & date. 36 pp. The anonymous writer in the Argus newspaper describes the successful but fatal feat of crossing the continent of Australia to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by Burke, Wills, Gray, and King. They left Royal Park, Melbourne, on the 20th of August, 1860. There are biographical sketches of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills. (Originally published by Wilson and Mackinnon, 1861, reprinted from the Argus newspaper. Facsimile edition,1963. This copy is the 1971 reprint in blue covers. No 10 in Libraries Board of South Australia facsimile series.).
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition: An Account of the Crossing the Continent of Australia, from Cooper's Creek to Carpentaria, Reprinted from "The Argus" [Australiana Facsimile Editions].
- Author
- Burke, Robert O'Hara; Wills, William John.
- Publisher
- Libraries Board of South Australia (LBSA), Adelaide
- Publication year
- 1971
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Facsimile, reprint ed.
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