On 24/03/2012 3:04 PM, Peter Ewin wrote:
I apologise for this being off topic, but as others have commented Birding-Aus
has a very wide range of subscribers.
I have just finished reading a book released last year by the Royal Society of
Victoria on the Scientific Legacy of the Burke and Wills Expedition. Some very
interesting stuff (including a bit on birds) that in particular defends Wills'
reputation as a surveyor (particularly given his young age). What it made me
realise is how little I know about Australian exploration (it is a long time
since High School history and I can really only remember talking about Cook and
Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, and I know a small amount about Sturt
expeditions to NW NSW). A couple of people that I have had a vague interest in
for a while are Edmund Kennedy (Cape York) and Ludwig Leichhardt (northern
Australia until he disappeared).
Can anyone recommend any decent books that detail their journeys, or with
Leichhardt, the searches that have been made since his disappearance. I will
then see if the local library has copies or I will try and track them down
elsewhere. A general history of exploration might also be a good start so a
good volume of this may be useful as well.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Peter
Peter,
The Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/ is a guide
to the literature up to the date of publication.
I find the explorers journals and books interesting reading. Many are
out of copyright now, and freely available. Some places to start are:
* Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/
* Explorers Journals at Project Gutenberg Australia
http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers-journals.html
* Australian Digital Collections http://adc.library.usyd.edu.au/
* Google books
There are multiple online editions of many of these works. Some are
scans of the original while others are essentially new digital editions.
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