Kennedy. The Barcoo and Beyond, 1847. The Journals of Edmund Besley Court Kennedy and Alfred Allatson Turner, with New Information on Kennedy's Life
Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1983.
Octavo, xx, 292 pages with a colour frontispiece plus 29 plates (including 2 full-page colour plates), 4 maps (3 folding) and endpaper maps.
Cloth; a fine copy with the fine pictorial acetate dustwrapper.
Number 249 of 750 copies signed by the author. 'Chosen by Mitchell as second-in-command to his 1846 expedition into southern and central Queensland, Kennedy impressed his difficult chief to such an extent that he was given command of an 1847 expedition to trace Mitchell's "Victoria River" to its supposed mouth on the Gulf of Carpentaria. The assumption proved to be false but the expedition, while not achieving its full potential, established the "Victoria" as the Barcoo, the upper waters of Cooper Creek, in the process discovering the now valuable Channel Country. It then traced the course of the Warrego River.... This book centres on the 1847 journey to the Barcoo and Warrego Rivers. Kennedy's journal is presented in freshly edited form and that of his deputy, Alfred Turner, is here published for the first time, together with other important primary materials' (publisher's blurb). McLaren 10676.
Item #147200
Price (AUD):
$75.00