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PublisherMelbourne University Publishing

ISBN-100522844847

ISBN-139780522844849

eBay Product ID (ePID)333633

Product Key Features

Book TitleJourney to Cooper's Creek

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLife Sciences / Botany, General, Australia & New Zealand

IllustratorYes

GenreScience, History

AuthorHermann Beckler

Book SeriesMiegunyah Press Ser.

FormatUk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.1 Oz

Item Length6.3 in

Item Width9.7 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN94-172812

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingA

Series Volume Number1:13

Dewey Decimal919.404/31

SynopsisFirst-hand accounts of the myth-laden Burke and Wills expedition are remarkably few, in contrast to the reams of subsequent commentary and conjecture. Wills's journal and statements by others in the party were published at the time, but little more. Hermann Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the expedition, wrote the only other substantial account, in his native German. The manuscript remained with his family for nearly a century. It is now published for the first time. This highly readable account, with drawings and maps, offers insights into the causes of the expedition's failure--an ill-chosen leader and route, and inappropriate and excessive supplies. In increasingly desperate conditions Beckler collected and identified the native flora, and recorded vivid and positive descriptions of the landscape and the Aboriginal people. His acute observations indicate what might have been achieved had the expedition pursued its scientific brief., The account of Hermann Beckler, German medical officer and botanical collector with the Burke and Wills expedition, translated and published for the first time. First-hand accounts of the myth-laden Burke and Wills expedition are remarkably few, in contrast to the reams of subsequent commentary and conjecture. Wills's journal and statements by others in the party were published at the time, but little more. Hermann Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the expedition, wrote the only other substantial account, in his native German. The manuscript remained with his family for nearly a century. It is now published for the first time. This highly readable account, with drawings and maps, offers insights into the causes of the expedition's failure-an ill-chosen leader and route, and inappropriate and excessive supplies. In increasingly desperate conditions Beckler collected and identified the native flora, and recorded vivid and positive descriptions of the landscape and the Aboriginal people. His acute observations indicate what might have been achieved had the expedition pursued its scientific brief., First-hand accounts of the myth-laden Burke and Wills expedition are remarkably few, in contrast to the reams of subsequent commentary and conjecture. Wills's journal and statements by others in the party were published at the time, but little more. Hermann Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the expedition, wrote the only other substantial account, in his native German. The manuscript remained with his family for nearly a century. It is now published for the first time. This highly readable account, with drawings and maps, offers insights into the causes of the expedition's failure-an ill-chosen leader and route, and inappropriate and excessive supplies. In increasingly desperate conditions Beckler collected and identified the native flora, and recorded vivid and positive descriptions of the landscape and the Aboriginal people. His acute observations indicate what might have been achieved had the expedition pursued its scientific brief.

LC Classification NumberDU102.B43 1993