Author: WILLS, WILLIAM JOHN.
Title: A Successful Exploration Through The Interior Of Australia, From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpenteria. From The Journals And Letters Of William John Wills. Edited by his father, William Wills.
Description: Rebound First issue of First Edition; 8vo; pp. xii, 396, 32; new marbled endpapers, b/w frontispiece, 1 b/w plate, appendices, 1 folding map at end of text; 32 pages of advertisments of Mr Bentleys new publications; contempory half green leather binding with raised bands, title in gilt on black backing on spine, minor water stain to half title and frontispiece, a good copy. London, Richard Bentley, 1863. The Victorian Exploring Expedition as seen by the second in command who was astronomer and guide to John O'Hara Burke the leader. Includes the life of Wills, boyhood and sailing on the Janet Mitchell his arrival at Port Phillip, his life at a sheep station on the Edward river at Deniliquin and life there. surveying, his description of Melbourne costs for lodgings and produce and Canvas Town across the river Yarra Yarra. The proposal for the expedition its delays and figures involved including Doctor Von Mueller, Mr. Landells, Mr. O'Shannassy. Mr. Nicholson and the Royal Society of Melbourne or the Exploration Fund Committee whose members included Professor McCoy, Dr. Mueller, Angus McMillan and many others. Excellent description of expedition leaving Melbourne from what is now the Royal Society of Victoria building.

Keywords: Australian land discovery exploration Burke and Wills expedition 1860 - 1861 history