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In the steps of Burke & Wills / Tom Bergin.
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Australian Broadcasting Commission,
Year:
1981.
Description:
139 pages, [20] pages of col. plates : illustrations, col. maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
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Notes:
Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0642974136 :;
Abstract:
The first step -- The land of stone -- North to Cordillo -- The land of Brown Hawks -- The land of the Kaldadoons -- The plains of promise -- Retreat to eternity.

Burke and Wills journey from Coopers Creek to the Gulf of Carpentaria retraced in
1977 by two white Australians and two Aborigines in order to test hypothesis on use of camels and timing of the expedition; includes sections from original journals which mention Aborigines on the route.
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