Mr Stuart's track : the forgotten life of Australia's greatest explorer [Book] / John Bailey.

By: Bailey, John, 1944 Dec. 15-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia, c2006Description: xi, 335 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 140503730XSubject(s): Stuart, John McDouall, 1815-1866 | Stuart, John McDouall, 1815-1866 | Australian explorers | Explorers -- South Australia -- Biography | Discoveries in geography | Australia, Central -- Discovery and exploration | Australia -- Discovery and exploration | AustraliaDDC classification: 994.02/BAI LOC classification: DU102 | .B24 2006Other classification: 15.95 | 7,29 | 15.95 ; Australien, Neuseeland, Ozeanien <Geschichte>
Contents:
1. Uncertain beginnings 1815-1846 -- 2. Finke -- 3. In search of Wingillpin 1858 -- 4. Cliffs of quartz 1859 -- 5. Chambers -- 6. The great northern copper mine -- 7. Rewards and rivals 1859-1860 -- 8. To the centre 1860 -- 9. Attack Creek 1860 -- 10. Fire and water 1860 -- 11. The great race: Part I -- 12. The great race: Part II 1861 -- 13. Sturt plains -- 14. Stuart, Burke and Wills 1861 -- 15. Overland to India 1861-1862 -- 16. Towards land's end 1862 -- 17. Homeward 1862 -- 18. The explorer of no fixed abode 1863-1866.
Summary: A fascinating study of a loner, an explorer of no fixed abode, who battled alcoholism and ill health to push himself to the limits of endurance in crossing straight through the red centre to the northern seas.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 315-317.

1. Uncertain beginnings 1815-1846 -- 2. Finke -- 3. In search of Wingillpin 1858 -- 4. Cliffs of quartz 1859 -- 5. Chambers -- 6. The great northern copper mine -- 7. Rewards and rivals 1859-1860 -- 8. To the centre 1860 -- 9. Attack Creek 1860 -- 10. Fire and water 1860 -- 11. The great race: Part I -- 12. The great race: Part II 1861 -- 13. Sturt plains -- 14. Stuart, Burke and Wills 1861 -- 15. Overland to India 1861-1862 -- 16. Towards land's end 1862 -- 17. Homeward 1862 -- 18. The explorer of no fixed abode 1863-1866.

A fascinating study of a loner, an explorer of no fixed abode, who battled alcoholism and ill health to push himself to the limits of endurance in crossing straight through the red centre to the northern seas.

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