Sturt, already famous for tracing the Murray, led a party from Adelaide in 1844 in the hope of finding a great sea at the heart of the continent. These two volumes record river country, waterless plains, heat that trapped the men for months and the stony desert that now bears his name, with notes on natural history and South Australia in 1847.
A classic of Australian exploration, harrowing and precise, for readers of travel and survival narratives. Download the free EPUB.