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Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia - With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales (Paperback)
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Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia - With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania, Volume 2
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Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792 1855) was an acclaimed
surveyor and explorer of Australia. After attending the University
of Edinburgh Mitchell joined the British Army in 1811. He took part
in major battles of the Peninsular War and difficult military
surveys in the Pyrenees. In 1827 he was appointed Deputy Surveyor
of New South Wales, and he became Surveyor General in 1828. This
fascinating two-volume work, first published in 1838, contains
Mitchell's illustrated account of his three expeditions into the
then unexplored interior of modern eastern Victoria and southern
New South Wales between 1831 and 1836, for which he received a
knighthood in 1839. Drawing on Mitchell's personal journals, Volume
2 describes in vivid detail the difficulties and dangers of
exploring the Murray Darling river systems, and provides valuable
first-hand descriptions of the lives and society of the indigenous
Australians his expedition encountered.
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