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Describes the mid-19th-century Burke and Wells expedition in which 18 amateur explorers took on the task of charting a course across the vast unmapped interior of Australia from Melbourne to the northern coast, recounting the tragic, nightmarish results of that odyssey.Murgatroyd, Sarah is the author of 'Dig Tree The Story of Bravery/Insanity/the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier' with ISBN 9780767908283 and ISBN 0767908287.
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