Compiled for the centenary of European settlement from official documents and private papers, Favenc’s history follows the explorers who pushed out from Sydney across the mountains, along the rivers and into the deserts and tropical north. Expedition by expedition it records routes, hardships, discoveries and deaths, including the pastoral pioneers such as Landsborough who opened Queensland.
The standard nineteenth-century survey of its subject, written by a man who explored in the bush himself. Download the free EPUB.