Cooper's Creek by Alan Moorehead

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to half-title page. Dust jacket has small tears and missing pieces to the front cover, now enclosed in a protective cover. Interior and binding are still very good.

1st edition. Includes a newspaper cutting of Moorehead's obituary from The Times, 30 September 1983.

In 1860, an expedition set out from Melbourne, Australia, into the country's interior, with the mission to find a route to the northern coast. Headed by Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills, the party of adventurers, scientists, and camels set out into the outback, hoping to find enough water and to keep adequate food stores for their trek into the bush.

Almost one year later, Burke, Wills, and two others from their party, Gray and King, reached the northern shore, but on their journey back, they were stranded at Cooper’s Creek, where all but King perished.

Cooper’s Creek is a gripping, intense historical narrative about the harshness of the Australian outback and the people who were brave enough to go into the very depths of that uncharted country. One of the first researched accounts of the ill-fated expedition. (publisher blurb)