Burke's Soldier by Alan Attwood

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good.

Melbourne, 1871

John King is dying far from the deserts he traversed with the legendary Burke and Wills. Ten years after that fateful expedition - the first to cross the Australian continent from south to north - King is finally ready to tell his story.

The young Irishman had already endured the horrors of the Indian Mutiny when he signed on with the erratic Burke to explore a land he knew little about. As one of the advance group later abandoned by the rest of their party, King was with Wills as he penned his final letter at Burke's side when he died.

Then, he was alone, the sole survivor, though barely alive when rescued by Alfred Howitt. But Howitt is a man who cannot let things be, and now he seems more inquisitor than saviour. He wants to know what King knows before it's too late... (book flap)