GILES, Ernest

Diary of Explorations of Mr Ernest Giles in Central Australia, 1872

Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove, 1986.

Octavo, 118 pages.

Cloth; a fine copy (without a dustwrapper, as issued).

Number 24 of 160 copies. A new edition of the rare 1875 first (and only other) publication (South Australian Parliamentary Papers Number 215 of 1874 and Number 21 of 1875), here incorporating about fifty author's corrections. An account of Giles' first expedition from August to November 1872; although unsuccessful in his attempt 'to penetrate to the sources of the Murchison River', he named Palm Valley (Glen of Palms), Mt Olga (Kata Tjuta) and Lake Amadeus.

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