Tales of tragedy and triumph

Denis Gregory

The often harsh and unforgiving Australian landscape was a far cry from what the early colonisers were used to and it proved a daunting obstacle to settlement. However, a few brave – and at times foolhardy – men were determined to prove themselves equal to the challenge. Australia’s Great Explorers looks at the tragedies and triumphs of men such as Wentworth and Lawson, Hume and Hovell, Burke and Wills, Leichhardt and Strzelecki as they battled to conquer the Great Diving Range, find an elusive inland sea, and traverse the length and breadth of this great country.

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SPECIFICATIONS
Size: 195 x 135 mm
Format: cased and jacketed
Extent: 96 pages
Weight: 250 gms
Publication date: July 2007
ISBN: 978-0-908988-43-3