Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia . Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta

STUART, John McDouall

Verlag: Government Printer, Melbourne, 1858

Beschreibung

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1858. Foolscap folio, [ii] (title page, verso blank), 9 pages plus a large folding map ('Country in South Australia explored by John McDouall Stuart. June to September, 1858', 600 × 510 mm, 'Lithographed by W. Knight at the Crown Lands Office, Melbourne'). A fine copy in recent blind-decorated quarter calf and cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number A3 of 1858 (a reprint of South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858). This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end of Lake Torrens and then turned north and north-west until they reached the present site of Coober Pedy. They then followed a southerly course to Lake Gairdner, passing it on the west side. After a strenuous march, they arrived at Ceduna . By now the men had run out of provisions. They travelled along the coast to Streaky Bay and from there to the settled districts at Mount Arden in a state of semi-starvation' (Feeken, Feeken and Spate, 1970). McLaren 15457 (noting the map, but as ever, recording the size of the sheet of paper, not the printed surface). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 114205

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia ....

Verlag: Government Printer, Melbourne

Erscheinungsdatum: 1858

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: First Edition.