Tracks of McKinlay and Party across Australia. Edited from Mr Davis's Manuscript Journal; with an Introductory View of the Recent Australian Explorations of McDouall Stuart, Burke and Wills, Landsborough, etc., by William Westgarth
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 1996 (facsimile edition)/ 1863.
Octavo, [vi] (preliminaries new to this edition), xvi, 408 pages plus 15 colour plates and a large folding map in an endpocket.
Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, and decorated in blind on the sides; an excellent copy.
'John Davis was a member of the South Australian relief expedition, led by John McKinlay, to search for Burke and Wills. The expedition travelled to Cooper Creek and north almost to the Gulf of Carpentaria ... [They then] made for Port Denison [Bowen], some 960km away in Queensland.' Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 211. One of only 600 copies (including 99 copies of a deluxe edition). The four-page introduction new to this edition is by Valmai Hankel.
Item #137425
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