Exploring in the 'Seventies and the Construction of the Overland Telegraph Line
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1926. 'In 1870 Giles was engaged as second-in-command of John Ross's expedition to fix the course of the overland telegraph line' ('Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography'); this account describes the author's experiences over the following two years and..... More