Author: VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT
Title: Exploration Expedition. Report Of Commander Norman, Of H.M.C.S. "Victoria". Together With Copy Of His Journal On The Late Expedition To The Gulf Of Carpentaria. Letter From Commander Norman Reporting The Return Of The "Victoria" From The Gulf Of Carpentaria; Together With Reports and Correspondence. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by his Excellency's Command.
Description: First Edition; Foolscap Folio; Report; pp 32; appendix; Letter; pp. 52; original blue sown parliamentary papers, edges browned, pages uncut, corners bumped, a good copy. Victorian Government, 1861-2. Two items. Interesting account searching for traces of Burke's expedition and much about Landsboroughs party. Appendix list vessels arriving at Booby Island data includes arrival time, where from. where bound, masters name, date of entering Barrier, The wreck of the Firefly, Chimmo and Gregory's trees,

Keywords: parliamentary discovery maritime exploration