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Author Cathcart, Michael, 1956- author

Title Starvation in a land of plenty : Wills' diary of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition / Michael Cathcart
Published Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, [2013]
©2013
©2013

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 MELB  994.03 Wills Cat/Sia  AVAILABLE
Description 213 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents INTRODUCTION; WILLIAM WILLS; BACKGROUND of the EXPEDITION; KEY MEMBERS of the EXPEDITION; MELBOURNE to MENINDEE; MENINDEE to the DEPOT; THE RACE to the GULF; FROM the GULF to SILENCE; FROM the DEPOT down the COOPER; LEARNING from the YANDRUWANDHA; BRAHE & WRIGHT in search of BURKE & WILLS; From STRZELECKI CREEK to NOWHERE; STARVATION & DEATH in a LAND OF PLENTY; The SEARCH PARTY; The AFTERMATH; ENDNOTES; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INDEX
Summary Between 23 April and 28 June 1861, Wills documented the torments and disappointments that led to his and Burke's destruction. Surprising to many, though, Wills was not the second-in-command but, rather, the party's 'surveyor, astronomical and meteorological observer'. His entries would go on to help historians understand the circumstances that led to the tragic end of the expedition. Today, the diary is held by the National Library of Australia and forms the foundation of Starvation in a Land of Plenty
Analysis All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
Australian
Biography & autobiography (Australia)
Modern history (c 1788-1914) (Australia)
Notes Balmain copy donated by Friends of Balmain Library
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, General
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 22, 2014)
Subject Wills, William John, 1834-1861 -- Diaries.
Wills, William John, 1834-1861 -- Travel -- Australia.
Wills, William John, 1834-1861 -- Diaries.
SUBJECT Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2006027032
Subject Explorers -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- 1851-1900
Australia -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308 -- 1851-1901
Australia -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308
Genre/Form Diaries.
Author Wills, William John, 1834-1861.
National Library of Australia, issuing body
LC no. 2014407395
ISBN 9780642277909 (paperback)
Other Titles Starvation in a land of plenty