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Pages: 391
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: Text Publishing
Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. ‘Without some c
Language: en
Pages: 391
Pages: 391
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: Text Publishing
The story of Burke and Wills is legend. Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the story of the disaster with all its heroism a
Language: en
Pages: 384
Pages: 384
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
In August 1860, an expedition team left Melbourne to make the journey into the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northern coast. Only three of them reached their desti
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Text Publishing
In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of Melbourne. Accompanied by William Wills, a
Language: en
Pages: 415
Pages: 415
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06 - Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
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