Robert Ohara Burke William John (15 results)

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Facsimile, reprint ed. Hardback small octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, blue leatherette boards, gilt title spine, frontispiece portrait drawing, card cover bound in, fold-out map inside rear cover, small owner's written name & date, copy 2. 36 pp. Facsimile edition, reprint. The anonymous writer in the Argus newspaper describes the successful but fatal feat of crossing the continent of Australia to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by Burke, Wills, Gray, and King. They left Royal Park, Melbourne, on the 20th of August, 1860. There are biographical sketches of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills. (No 10 in this series.).

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Condition: Very Good. 8vo. hardcover. 36pp. fold-out map. Very good+, light foxing.

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Pp. [20], frontispiece, plus 1 text illustration, 2 tinted facsimiles, appendices, printed pastedowns; demy 4to; printed papered boards, lightly soiled, edges a trifle bruised; original glassine wrapper, creased and slightly torn; The Australian Documentary Facsimile Society, Sydney, 1966. Edition limited to 275 copies, this being one of 250 signed by the author. *The second publication from The Australian Documentary Facsimile Society, reproducing newspaper advertisements for the 1862 Burke & Willis 'moving panorama' or diorama [see Ferguson 7709]. The new illustrations are by Syd Miller and the introductory text is by Keast Burke. With loosely inserted related publisher's ephemera (Chairman's report for 1966).

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"the glorious race across the continent" (Sir Henry Barkly) One large folding and one full-page lithographed map, with contemporary hand-colour in outline (502 by 320; 280 by 170mm); bound into "Hansard" paper 'Australian Exploring Expedition. (Burke and Wills). Copy of all Despatches from Sir Henry Barkly and the other Colonial Governors on the subject of the Australian Exploring Expedition', folio; stabbed and sewn as issued, preserved in archival buckram-backed portfolio. The censorious official report, issued as part of the royal commission, into the disappearance of legendary Australian explorers Burke and Wills: a tragic tale of hubris and mischance of epic proportions emblazoned into the heart of every Australian. The signal intent of the expedition, commissioned by the state of Victoria's worthies on a whim, in the spirit of sporting endeavor rather than scientific exploration, was to compete with the ambitions of South Australian explorer John McDouall Stuart, to be the first to traverse the Australian continent from South to North. The choice of local policeman, Robert O'Hara Burke (1821-1861), as totally inexperienced leader, was: "inexplicable if exploration were the real object, but excellent if it were exploit. Burke was a death or glory man and he achieved both" (Fitzpatrick). Burke and Wills did, technically, achieve their goal, but at a terrible cost: with an expenditure of more than £60,000, the lives of seven explorers, and an unknown number of indigenous people. Outfitted with "over two dozen [camels], both riding and pack animals, imported complete with cameleers. There were horses and wagons, abundant food for two years and lavish equipment, including 6 tons of firewood, 57 buckets and 45 yards of green gossamer for veils. The party consisted of three officers: Burke, Landells the camel-master, and William John Wills surveyor and meteorologist; two German scientific officers, Ludwig Becker naturalist and Herman Beckler medical officer and botanist; a foreman and nine assistants and the camel-drivers. The expedition left Melbourne on 20 August 1860 and made a stately progress through the settled districts to Swan Hill and Balranald and reached Menindee on the Darling at the beginning of October. The march to the gulf was made in extraordinarily favourable conditions, after a season of heavy rain. Charles Sturt's Stony Desert was like a garden, full of lily ponds, and Burke's expedition, in this also unique, was never short of water and was able to travel in an almost straight line to its objective, without losing time searching for water. Even so it took four months to do the 1500 miles. They walked from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. with only a single day of rest in the whole period, and were half-starving in the fourth month" (Kathleen Fitzpatrick). The real hero of the hour was John McKinlay, who led the relief mission. Unlike Burke and Wills, he mapped his route and made useful discoveries. His party was the second to cross the continent from south to north and, like Stuart, he never lost any of his men. Provenance: British Foreign Office Library Fitzpatrick, 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', online; Maria, 36; McLaren, 5558.

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