Author: WARBURTON, COLONEL PETER EGERTON.
Title: Journey Across The Western Interior Of Australia With An Introduction And Additions By Charles H. Eden. Edited By H.W. Bates, With Illustrations And A Map. Australiana Facsimile Editions No. 11.
Description: Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 308; portrait frontispiece, 8 f/p b/w illustrations, folding map at rear, original green vinyl, title lettered in gilt on spine, very good copy. Adelaide; Libraries Board of South Australia; 1968. In 1972, Warburton was commissioned to journey westward across Australia from Alice Springs to Perth, in search of new pastoral areas. No good country was found, a one point his party were pinned down through lack of water for 56 days. "If we press on we risk losing our camels and dying of thirst. If we stand still, we shall starve." The party press on, losing many camels, and after 9 months in the desert, reached Roebourne on the north-west coast of Western Australia, over a thousand miles from Perth.

Keywords: Australian discovery exploration western interior Peter Warburton Western Australia Northern Territory local history