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The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier
by Murgatroyd, Sarah
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0767908287
- ISBN 13
- 9780767908283
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Random House, New York, 2002. 1st Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. This is the first US edition. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Australia; ISBN: 0767908287. ISBN/EAN: 9780767908283. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23773. . 9780767908283
Synopsis
The harrowing true story of the Burke and Willis expedition team who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost.They departed Melbourne's Royal Park in the summer of 1860, a misfit party of eighteen amateur explorers cheered on by thousands of well-wishers. Their mission: to chart a course across the vast unmapped interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the northern coast. Months later, only one man returned alive--with tales of heroism, hardships, and lost opportunities that were by turns terrifying and darkly comic.Drawing its title from one of the few remaining traces of the expedition, The Dig Tree combines the danger of Sebastian Junger with the irony of Bill Bryson to relive the tragic journey of these completely initiated adventurers. The cast of characters includes the expeditionleader; a reckless, charming Irish policeman known for getting lost on his way home from the pub; an eccentric nature enthusiast from Germany; an alcoholic camel handler; and a rogue American horse-breaker who is just in it for the money. For nine harrowing months, their quest for glory shifts from idiocy to perseverance and then inexorably toward tragedy. The nightmare culminates in a last haunting message left behind a group of desperate and dying men--the word DIG carved into what is now Australia's most famous tree.The Dig Tree follows this compelling journey through a forgotten corner of history to examine a daring expedition that came unbelievably close to success only to let it slip away.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23773
- Title
- The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier
- Author
- Murgatroyd, Sarah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition thus
- ISBN 10
- 0767908287
- ISBN 13
- 9780767908283
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BZDB185 Australia; Unbranded ISBN: 0767908287 EAN: 9780767908283 Murgatroyd, Sarah The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier
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I have been a bookseller since 1986 and closed my shop in 2001 to concentrate on mail order and do some writing. My stock includes a large selection of books on Baseball, True Crime, Ohioana, Botany, Literature, and Music. And I've cowritten two books: Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues with Frazier Robinson (1999) and Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler with Mark Dawidziak (2011, foreword by Ken Burns). Mark Dawidziak and I have also written introductions to six reissues of Tully's books: Circus Parade (foreword by Harvey Pekar), Shanty Irish (foreword by John Sayles), The Bruiser (foreword by Gerald Early), Blood on the Moon, Shadows of Men, and Tully's breakthrough book, Beggars of Life.
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