I apologise for this being off topic, but as others have commented Birding-Aus has a very wide range of subscribers. I have just finished reading a book released last year by the Royal Society of Victoria on the Scientific Legacy of the Burke and Wills Expedition. Some very interesting stuff (including a bit on birds) that in particular defends Wills’ reputation as a surveyor (particularly given his young age). What it made me realise is how little I know about Australian exploration (it is a long time since High School history and I can really only remember talking about Cook and Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, and I know a small amount about Sturt expeditions to NW NSW). A couple of people that I have had a vague interest in for a while are Edmund Kennedy (Cape York) and Ludwig Leichhardt (northern Australia until he disappeared). Can anyone recommend any decent books that detail their journeys, or with Leichhardt, the searches that have been made since his disappearance. I will then see if the local library has copies or I will try and track them down elsewhere. A general history of exploration might also be a good start so a good volume of this may be useful as well. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Peter
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I’ve got a copy of “The Explorers” Edited by Tim Flannery (1998, Text Publishing, Melbourne) which covers those mentioned by Peter, several other famous explorers (eg Eyre, Stuart, Sturt) and whole range more that I had never heard of until I read the book (although my school history was delivered in the UK – 1066 and all that….) Cheers Tom Wilson
Dave While doing some research for my PhD I noticed that quite a few older books can be downloaded through various sites. Students might find this very helpful when they’re looking for publications university libraries don’t hold.
Denise
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Peter,
I have been doing a bit of such reading and collecting of sources over time. If you don’t mind reading on the computer or have an Ipad then I would thoroughly recommend a website called ebooks@Adelaide, a free online resource offered by The University of Adelaide. Follow the link below to authors listed alphabetically, and scroll to the relevant person.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/authors.html#S
Another useful online resource is the Project Gutenberg Australia site which has a range of explorer journals on it, and biographies.
http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers.html
Otherwise, there are a range of Australiana publications including facsimile and parliamentary editions are available from the State Library of South Australia.
http://www.australianapublications.org.au/
Hopefully this will get you, and others started.
Cheers Dave
Peter,
The Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/ is a guide to the literature up to the date of publication.
I find the explorers journals and books interesting reading. Many are out of copyright now, and freely available. Some places to start are:
* Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/ * Explorers Journals at Project Gutenberg Australia http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers-journals.html * Australian Digital Collections http://adc.library.usyd.edu.au/ * Google books
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