Author: SPROD, DAN.
Title: Proud Intrepid Heart. Leichhardt's First Attempt To The Swan River 1846-1847.
Description: First Edition; 4to; pp. xx, 336(last blank); illustrated endpapers, coloured half title illustration, coloured frontispiece, 71 plates, 8 maps, appeddices, notes and references, bibliography,index, original gold-blocked maroon cloth, gold-blocked blue illustrated dustjacket, edition limited to 600 numbered copies signed by the author. Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1989. Published for the first time, and with extensive commentary, the journals of Leichhardt and Hovenden Hely written on Leichhardt's Second Expedition. This unsuccessful attempt to reach Western Australia, via northern Australia, was abandoned at the Peak Range, Queensland.

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