Author: BECKLER, HERMANN.
Title: A Journey To Cooper's Creek. Translated by Stephen Jeffries and Michael Kertesz. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Jeffries.
Description: First Edition; Review copy; 8vo; pp. xlv, 205; 4 b/w and colour plates, 8 b/w illustrations, 3 b/w maps, 1 folding map on verso back cloth, editor's notes, appendix, index; dustjacket, a fine copy. Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press in association with The State Library of Victoria, 1993. 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.

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