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Crossing the Dead Heart. [The Story of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition
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Crossing the Dead Heart. [The Story of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition (dustwrapper subtitle)] Hardcover - 1948

by MADIGAN, C.T

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Melbourne: Georgian House, 1948. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1948/ 1946. Octavo, xiv, 171, [1] (colophon) pages plus 52 plates and a folding map. Cloth; endpapers discoloured; a near-fine copy with the slightly chipped and marked dustwrapper. Provenance: with the ink ownership signature of prominent local botanist David Eric Symon (1920-2011), Curator of the Arboretum and Herbarium at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute for almost 30 years. An account of the 1939 Simpson Desert Expedition. Cecil Thomas Madigan (1889-1947), geologist and explorer 'planned a ground crossing in the winter of 1939. A party of nine, including a biologist, a botanist, a photographer and a radio operator, with nineteen camels, made the exhausting crossing from Andado station in the Northern Territory to Birdsville in twenty-five days. It verified Madigan's previous conclusions that the area was a wasteland' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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