Author: CHEWINGS, CHARLES.
Title: The Sources of the Finke River and Other Expeditions. With and introduction by Valmai Hankel.
Description: Deluxe Facsimile Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xxxiv, 174; portrait frontispiece, two maps in text, one in pocket at back of book, quarter black leather binding, maroon cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, embossed decoration to front board; edition limited to 325 copies of which 125 are numbered and bound in quarter leather, this copy being No. 34, fine copy. Adelaide; The Friends of the State Library of South Australia; 2010. Accounts of the first three expeditions were published in the South Australian weekly newspaper, the Observer. The 1885 report was also issued separately as a pamphlet, "The Sources of the Finke River, in Adelaide in 1886. The Geographical Journal (London) published the account of the 1909 journey in October 1930. This current edition also has the 26 page introduction by Valmai Hankel.

Keywords: Australian Local History Northern Territory Discovery Exploration Charles Chewings Camels