Cooper's Creek

by Alan Moorehead (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $9.86

  The first fully documented story of the strange drama - familiar to every Australian child - that took place in the remote interior of Australia 150 years ago. More than any other incident in Australia's history the story of Burke, the dashing but inexperienced expedition leader and Wills, his heroic second-in-command, evokes the memory of the early settlers and the seemingly insurmountable odds they sought to overcome. From the days the expedition set off from the rich, gold-rush town of Melbourne through the triumphant crossing of the continent to the heartbreaking return to base camp at Cooper's Creek, this is an epic adventure in the grand manner told by a master.

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  Paperback
  1986

  $3.77

  The true story of two men, Burke and Wills, who set off from Melbourne in 1860 to conquer the ghastly blank of central Australia, but were never to return. Alan Moorehead describes what happened to them on that fated expedition and the physical and mental torments as the men pushed themselves to their furthest limits. Alan Moorehead was awarded the OBE for his war correspondence during World War II and has written Gallipoli which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in 1956, The Blue Nile , The White Nile , Fatal Impact and Darwin and the Beagle .