Outback
Subtitle: the discovery of Australia's interior
By: Derek Parker.
Publisher: Sutton
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780750942973
Subjects: Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
Description: In 1800, while the coast of Australia had finally been charted, the vast interior of the continent from north to south and east to west lay undiscovered. This book is a collection of stories of those intrepid explorers who beat starvation, inadequate information, disease and loss, to forge a route which would enable the country's development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.