Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing
Captain Charles Sturt (1795-1869) of the 39th Regt. F.L.S. and F.R.G.S., famous explorer, soldier and public servant, led several expeditions into the interior of Australia. He began his two-volume Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia with a review of his previous exploration expeditions. The narrative of the journey proper was written in a conversational, first person tone, in a diary form, communicating his scientific hypotheses, as well as his detailed descriptions of the landscape through which he travelled, the Aboriginal people that he encountered, and the climate and geography. The second volume ended with an account of Adelaide and South Australia. Sturt also wrote Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia (1833).
