Author: STUART, JOHN McDOUALL.
Title: John M'Douall Stuart's Explorations Across The Continent Of Australia With Charts 1861-62.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [vi] advertisements, 98 (last blank), 92) advertisements; frontispiece large folding map, bound in original pink printed boards with cloth spine, wrappers a little worn, some minor spotting in text, good copy. Melbourne; F.F. Bailliere; 1863. Ferguson 16380. Diary entries relate day to day exploration that made possible the Overland Telegraph from December 20, 1861 as he starts his journey from Adelaide South Australia other members of the party are given credit and discredit and the many trials and tribulations they encounter as their horses drop out and needed supplies must be left to keep light loads on the others, the names he gives to places are explained, encounters with the aboriginals their attitudes to horses and such is refreshing. Diary dispatched to H. B. T. Strangways, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration.

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