Item #88573 Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia ... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta. John McDouall STUART.
Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia ... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta
Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia ... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta
Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia ... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta
Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia ... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta

Mr Stuart's Exploration in South Australia ... Journal of an Expedition into the Unexplored Country to the North-West and South-West of Port Augusta

Melbourne, Government Printer, 1858.

Foolscap folio, 9 pages plus a large folding map, 'Country in South Australia Explored ... June to September 1858' (600 × 510 mm).

Title leaf lightly creased with two small spots of foxing; short tear to the map near the stub expertly sealed; essentially a fine copy in modern half calf and cloth.

Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858 (a reprint of South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 119 of 1858). This is an account of Stuart's first independent expedition; he had previously travelled with Sturt's 1844-45 expedition into Central Australia. The party of three 'started out from the Northern Flinders Ranges in mid-May. They skirted the south end of Lake Torrens and then turned north and north-west until they reached the present site of Coober Pedy. They then followed a southerly course to Lake Gairdner, passing it on the west side. After a strenuous march, they arrived at Ceduna ... By now the men had run out of provisions. They travelled along the coast to Streaky Bay and from there to the settled districts at Mount Arden in a state of semi-starvation' (Feeken, Feeken and Spate, 1970). From the collection of Dr John Chapman, with his bookplate.

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