A young Scottish aristocrat goes to the Coolgardie goldfields in the 1890s, works as a miner, and then leads expeditions into the interior. The core of the book is his 1896 camel journey north across the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts and back, a constant search for water in country of spinifex, sandhills and rockholes.
A plain-spoken classic of Australian desert exploration. Download the free EPUB.