Bibliograph

Mr Stuart's track, the forgotten life of Australia's greatest explorer, John Bailey

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Label

Mr Stuart's track, the forgotten life of Australia's greatest explorer, John Bailey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-317) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

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mapsillustrationsportraitsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mr Stuart's track

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

John Bailey

Sub title

the forgotten life of Australia's greatest explorer

Summary

On 14 May 1858, an expedition of discovery led by John McDouall Stuart departed from a copper mine located on the very edge of the known world in the North Flinders Ranges. It was to be the first of six expeditions mounted by Stuart. Stuart was to be the first European to cross Australia from south to north and return again. Yet his hero's homecoming was shortlived. Mr Stuart's Track is a fascinating study of a loner, an explorer of no fixed abode, who battled alcoholism and ill health to push himself to the limits of endurance. John Bailey has brilliantly re-created the life and journeys of Australia's greatest, and least understood, explorer

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