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The author argues that 'The Explorers' differs from other literary responses to the tragedy of the Burke and Wills expedition, in focussing on Wills rather than Burke as hero, in its trenchant moral criticism of British society, and in its ambivalent treatment of the terrain the explorers crossed.
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- The Incredible Journey 1923 single work novel
- The Explorers : A Chronicle of the Burke and Wills Expedition. In Four Parts. 1874 sequence poetry
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