Finding Burke and Wills

Description

Alfred Howitt’s personal reminiscences of Central Austrlia include his tributes to earlier explorers – Eward John Eyre, Charles Sturt and Benjamin Herschel Babbage.But it is his account of the ill-fated 1860-61 Burke and Wills expedition which has captured readers’ interest.Howitt’s account is complemented by little-known and charming illustrations of Baggage’s 1858 journey into northern South Australia.  There are also Cuthbert Charles very rare and fanciful illustrations to the Burke and Wills diaries, in which he populates Central Australia with exotic and lush tropical vegetation.  In such a land, Burke and Wills might have lived!

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