Australian Explorers - Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements
by George Grimm
About this book
"The Story of the Exploration of Australia is one which we cannot willingly let die. There are many reasons for keeping alive the remembrance of such heroic deeds. It is due to the memory of those men who took their lives in their hands, and, in many cases, laid their bones in the desert; it is an act of gratitude on our part, who have entered on their labours; and it is a kind of information indispensable to every Australian who desires to know the history of his country." - Summary from the Author's Preface
Chapters (19)
1Introduction. Pioneer Navigators
2Chapter I. The Pioneers of the Blue Mountains
3Chapter II. Surveyor Evan's Discovery of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers and the Bathurst Plains
4Chapter III. Oxley's Expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers
5Chapter IV. Hume and Hovell's Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip
6Chapter V. Allan Cunningham's Explorations
7Chapter VI. Captain Sturt's Three Expeditions
8Chapter VII. Eyre's Adventurous Journey Along the Great Australian Bight
9Chapter VIII. Sir Thomas Mitchell's Four Expeditions
10Chapter IX. Kennedy's Disastrous Expedition to Cape Yorke
11Chapter X. Leichhardt's Expedition to Port Essington and into the Interior
12Chapter XI. Mr. A. C. Gregory's Expedition to the North-West Interior
13Chapter XII. Burke and Wills's Expedition Across the Australian Continent
14Chapter XIII. Search Expeditions in Quest of Burke and Wills
15Chapter XIV. John McDouall Stuart’s Expeditions in the South, to the Centre, and Across the Continent
16Chapter XV. Colonel Warburton's Journey Across the Western Interior
17Chapter XVI. The Hon. John Forrest's Explorations in Western Australia
18Chapter XVII. Mr. Ernest Giles's Explorations in Central and Western Australia
19Chapter XVIII. Other Explorers in Western Australia - Conclusion
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