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Alternative title: Cooper's Creek : Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback; Cooper's Creek : The Real Story of Burke and Wills
Issue Details: First known date: 1963... 1963 Cooper's Creek
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'In 1860, an expedition set out from Melbourne, Australia, into the interior of the country, with the mission to find a route to the northern coast. Headed by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, the party of adventurers, scientists, and camels set out into the outback hoping to find enough water and to keep adequate food stores for their trek into the bush. Almost one year later, Burke, Wills, and two others from their party, Gray and King, reached the northern shore but on their journey back, they were stranded at Cooper's Creek where all but King perished. Cooper's Creek is a gripping, intense historical narrative about the harshness of the Australian outback and the people who were brave enough to go into the very depths of that uncharted country.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
There are numerous other editions listed in Libraries Australia, including an adaptation for children (Nelson 1978) not entered in AustLit.
    • London,
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      Hamish Hamilton ,
      1963 .
      Extent: x, 222p., [23] pages of platesp.
      Description: illus., facsims., maps, ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Harper and Row ,
      1963 .
      Extent: x, 222 p.p.
      Description: illus., ports., maps.
    • London,
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      Four Square Books ,
      1965 .
      Extent: 202p.
      Description: [6] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsim
    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Macmillan Australia , 1977 .
      Extent: 180p.
      Edition info: Illustrated ed.
      Description: illus., maps, ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 0333229096
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      St. Martin's Press ,
      1977 .
      Extent: 180p.
      Description: [3] leaves of plates : ill.
      Note/s:
      • Includes index
      ISBN: 0312169574
    • South Melbourne, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Sun Books , 1985 .
      Extent: 180p.
      ISBN: 0725104856 (pbk.)
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Nelson , 1985 .
      Extent: 224p.
      Description: [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps
      ISBN: 017006736X
    • Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
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      England,
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      Penguin ,
      1988 .
      Extent: 224p, [8]p of platesp.
      Description: illus., facsims., ports., map
      ISBN: 0140092404 (pbk)
    • London,
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      England,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Phoenix ,
      2001 .
      Extent: 222 p., [8] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports., map
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography.
      • Includes index.
      ISBN: 1842124064 (pbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Skyhorse Publishing ,
      2010 .
      Extent: 224p.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Includes index
      ISBN: 9781616080228 (pbk. : alk. pape, 1616080221 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Alternative title: Aventure Australienne
Language: French

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Works about this Work

The Literature of Burke and Wills Ian Hadwen , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland History Journal , February vol. 21 no. 8 2012; (p. 537-550)
'There Are No Lost Cities in Australia' : Losing and Finding Australia in the Work of Alan Moorehead David Callahan , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 19 no. 1 1999; (p. 70-83)
Selected Books Alan Ross , 1964 single work review
— Appears in: The London Magazine , January vol. 3 no. 10 1964; (p. 95, 97-98)

— Review of Cooper's Creek Alan Moorehead , 1963 single work prose
Selected Books Alan Ross , 1964 single work review
— Appears in: The London Magazine , January vol. 3 no. 10 1964; (p. 95, 97-98)

— Review of Cooper's Creek Alan Moorehead , 1963 single work prose
The Literature of Burke and Wills Ian Hadwen , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland History Journal , February vol. 21 no. 8 2012; (p. 537-550)
'There Are No Lost Cities in Australia' : Losing and Finding Australia in the Work of Alan Moorehead David Callahan , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 19 no. 1 1999; (p. 70-83)
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