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Cooper's Creek
Cooper's Creek : Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback;
Cooper's Creek : The Real Story of Burke and Wills
London
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
1963
Z995999
1963
single work
prose
'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)
