The Resource Following Burke and Wills across Australia : a touring guide, Dave Phoenix
Following Burke and Wills across Australia : a touring guide, Dave Phoenix
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The item Following Burke and Wills across Australia : a touring guide, Dave Phoenix represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Every Australian has heard of Burke and Wills but few have travelled in their footsteps. In 2008, historian Dave Phoenix decided to walk across Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, following the track taken by the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition. Now you can follow them too. Following Burke and Wills Across Australia guides you on a road trip that follows one of history's great transcontinental journeys, sharing the explorers' experiences on the way. Maps lay out a route that takes you as close as possible to the Expedition's track. As you travel the outback roads, you can learn all the details of the day to day journey of the Expedition from the explorers' own words, and compare what you see with their descriptions of the country in 1860-61. Each chapter provides information about what to see now: the location and descriptions of the markers and memorials placed along the route over the 150 years since the Expedition, and places where you can stand where the explorers stood and look out over prospects they drew and described. The book is a perfect companion for those wanting to see outback Australia, and at the same time understand a journey that has attained mythic status in the history of Australian exploration. Even if you want to follow only part of the track, this is the book for you
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Following Burke and Wills across Australia : a touring guide
- Title
- Following Burke and Wills across Australia
- Title remainder
- a touring guide
- Statement of responsibility
- Dave Phoenix
- Subject
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- Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- 19th century
- Australia -- Guidebooks
- trueAustralian
- Burke and Wills Expedition, 1860-1861
- Burke, Robert O'Hara, 1821-1861
- trueAustralia -- Description and travel
- trueExplorers
- trueExplorers -- Australia
- Guidebooks
- Wills, William John, 1834-1861
- trueDiscoveries in geography
- trueAustralia -- Discovery and exploration
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Every Australian has heard of Burke and Wills but few have travelled in their footsteps. In 2008, historian Dave Phoenix decided to walk across Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, following the track taken by the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition. Now you can follow them too. Following Burke and Wills Across Australia guides you on a road trip that follows one of history's great transcontinental journeys, sharing the explorers' experiences on the way. Maps lay out a route that takes you as close as possible to the Expedition's track. As you travel the outback roads, you can learn all the details of the day to day journey of the Expedition from the explorers' own words, and compare what you see with their descriptions of the country in 1860-61. Each chapter provides information about what to see now: the location and descriptions of the markers and memorials placed along the route over the 150 years since the Expedition, and places where you can stand where the explorers stood and look out over prospects they drew and described. The book is a perfect companion for those wanting to see outback Australia, and at the same time understand a journey that has attained mythic status in the history of Australian exploration. Even if you want to follow only part of the track, this is the book for you
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Phoenix, Dave
- Dewey number
- 919.4
- Government publication
- federal national government publication
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Burke, Robert O'Hara
- Wills, William John
- Burke and Wills Expedition
- Discoveries in geography
- Explorers
- Explorers
- Australia
- Australia
- Australia
- Australia
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Following Burke and Wills across Australia : a touring guide, Dave Phoenix
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 380) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000054000890
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xxi, 392 pages
- Isbn
- 9781486301584
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)900457723
- Label
- Following Burke and Wills across Australia : a touring guide, Dave Phoenix
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 380) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000054000890
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xxi, 392 pages
- Isbn
- 9781486301584
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)900457723
Subject
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- 19th century
- Australia -- Guidebooks
- trueAustralian
- Burke and Wills Expedition, 1860-1861
- Burke, Robert O'Hara, 1821-1861
- trueAustralia -- Description and travel
- trueExplorers
- trueExplorers -- Australia
- Guidebooks
- Wills, William John, 1834-1861
- trueDiscoveries in geography
- trueAustralia -- Discovery and exploration
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