Dig: The Forgotten History of Burke and Wills single work   short story   historical fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Dig: The Forgotten History of Burke and Wills
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    y separately published work icon Unwritten Histories Craig Cormick , Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 1998 Z379477 1998 selected work short story prose

    'In this witty and satirical revisiting of Australia’s heroic past, Craig Cormick rediscovers the contributions of Indigenous Australians that have always remained unrecorded and unacknowledged, Australia’s unwritten histories.'

    'Drawing on original records of the time, he has turned the spotlight away from its traditional focus to illuminate those whom history has forgotten. Great explorers, teachers, warriors and dreamers, who were there when Banks first saw a Banksia or when explorers Burke and Wills staggered on from Coopers Creek, but they have vanished simply because their stories were unrecorded.'   (Publication summary)

         Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press , 1998     pg. 87-100
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y separately published work icon Dig : The Forgotten History of Burke and Wills Craig Cormick , Charnwood : Ginninderra Press , 2002 Z1003203 2002 single work prose historical fiction satire

'Craig Cormick imaginatively revisits Burke and WIlls' expedition to cross the Australian continent in 1860-1, proving thw the past really is a foreign country. With a biting satirical eye, he delves a little deeper into the minds and motives - as well as the myths - of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills.' (Publication summary)
The Forgotten History Craig Cormick , 2002 extract (Dig: The Forgotten History of Burke and Wills)
— Appears in: Muse , May no. 217 2002; (p. 19)
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  • Australian Outback, Central Australia,
  • Cooper Creek SA / Qld, North East South Australia, Far North South Australia, South Australia,
  • 1861
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