Mr Stuart's Track: The Forgotten Life of Australia's Greatest Explorer
by Bailey, John
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 140503730X
- ISBN 13
- 9781405037303
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2006. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 335 pages, indexed, illustrated with black and white plates, maps, annotated. The pages are lightly tanned, and there's a light verircal strak along the spine strip, else clean, unmarked and solid. "On 14 May 1858, an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine located on the very edge of the known world in the North Flinders Ranges. It was to be the first of six expeditions mounted by Stuart. Stuart was to be the first European to cross Australia from south to north and return again. Yet his hero's homecoming was short lived. Mr Stuart's Track is a fascinating study of a loner, an explorer of no fixed abode, who battled alcoholism and ill health to push himself to the limits of endurance. John Bailey has brilliantly re-created the life and journeys of Australia's greatest, and least understood, explorer."
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-317) and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021657
- Title
- Mr Stuart's Track: The Forgotten Life of Australia's Greatest Explorer
- Author
- Bailey, John
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 140503730X
- ISBN 13
- 9781405037303
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- Australian Explorers Explration John McDouall Stuart.
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Good Reading Second Hand Books
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Benalla, Victoria
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Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.
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