Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, from the Journals and letters of William John Wills

Nonfiction, History, Australia & Oceania
Cover of the book Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, from the Journals and letters of William John Wills by William John Wills, B&R Samizdat Express
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Author: William John Wills ISBN: 9781455307937
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: William John Wills
ISBN: 9781455307937
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English
First publilshed in 1863. According to the Preface: "A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials for an extended biography. But the important position held by my late son, as second in command in what is now so well-known as the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition across the Island Continent of Australia; the complicated duties he undertook as Astronomer, Topographer, Journalist, and Surveyor; the persevering skill with which he discharged them, suggesting and regulating the march of the party through a waste of eighteen hundred miles, previously untrodden by European feet; his courage, patience, and heroic death; his self-denial in desiring to be left alone in the desert with scarcely a hope of rescue, that his companions might find a chance for themselves;--these claims on public attention demand that his name should be handed down to posterity in something more than a mere obituary record, or an official acknowledgment of services."
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First publilshed in 1863. According to the Preface: "A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials for an extended biography. But the important position held by my late son, as second in command in what is now so well-known as the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition across the Island Continent of Australia; the complicated duties he undertook as Astronomer, Topographer, Journalist, and Surveyor; the persevering skill with which he discharged them, suggesting and regulating the march of the party through a waste of eighteen hundred miles, previously untrodden by European feet; his courage, patience, and heroic death; his self-denial in desiring to be left alone in the desert with scarcely a hope of rescue, that his companions might find a chance for themselves;--these claims on public attention demand that his name should be handed down to posterity in something more than a mere obituary record, or an official acknowledgment of services."

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