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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the Years 1840-1 (Paperback)
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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the Years 1840-1 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania, Volume 1
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In 1832, aged just seventeen, the future colonial governor Edward
John Eyre (1815-1901) set sail from London for Australia. The
farming life that awaited him laid the foundations of an enduring
interest in the topography, anthropology and zoology of his adopted
homeland. Following an initial expedition in 1839, in 1840 Eyre set
out on his pioneering trek from Adelaide to Western Australia. The
year-long adventure financially ruined the explorer, but won him
the coveted gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society for
discovering Lake Torrens. Published in 1845, this two-volume
account of the expedition made Eyre a household name in Britain and
fuelled popular interest in the former penal colony. Including
eleven engravings, Volume 1 opens with the origins of the
expedition, but quickly leads readers into the darkest moments
experienced en route, including conflicts within the party,
desperate searches for water, and the murder of an overseer.
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