Author: WEBSTER, E. M; Annotator.
Title: An Explorer at Rest. Ludwig Leichhardt at Port Essington and on the Homeward Voyage. 1845-1846.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. x 124; List of illustrations, acknowledgements, 10 pages of plates, notes, index, bound in original maroon cloth, very good copy. Melbourne University Press; 1986. Never before published, this short journal covers Leichhardt's brief sojourn at Port Essington after his overland expedition of 1844-45, then the return journey to Sydney on board the schooner Hervine. Leichhardt emerges as a well educated and insatiably curious young man of his times: anyone less like the 'demonic' figure of our modern mythologizers is difficult to imagine.
Keywords: Biographies and autobiographies Discovery and exploration Ludwig Leichhardt northern territory
Title: An Explorer at Rest. Ludwig Leichhardt at Port Essington and on the Homeward Voyage. 1845-1846.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. x 124; List of illustrations, acknowledgements, 10 pages of plates, notes, index, bound in original maroon cloth, very good copy. Melbourne University Press; 1986. Never before published, this short journal covers Leichhardt's brief sojourn at Port Essington after his overland expedition of 1844-45, then the return journey to Sydney on board the schooner Hervine. Leichhardt emerges as a well educated and insatiably curious young man of his times: anyone less like the 'demonic' figure of our modern mythologizers is difficult to imagine.
Keywords: Biographies and autobiographies Discovery and exploration Ludwig Leichhardt northern territory
Price: AUD 26.00 = appr. US$ 17.99 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 118484
- Book number: 118484