Finding Burke and Wills: Personal Reminiscences of Central Australia and the Burke and Wills Expedition, With a Glance at Benjamin Herschel Babbage’s 1858 Expedition

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers. Protective plastic covering. Remnant of date due slip and partial stamp on blank preliminary endnote. Edition limited to 400 copies.

Full Title: Finding Burke and Wills: Personal Reminiscences of Central Australia and the Burke and Wills Expedition, With a Glance at Benjamin Herschel Babbage’s 1858 Expedition by Alfred Howitt; With Selected Sketches of the Babbage Expedition by Benjamin Herschel Babbage and David Herrgott; Also Illustrations to the Diaries of the Burke & Wills Expedition to Carpentaria Attributed to Cuthbert Charles Clarke; Introduction by Valmai Hankel.

This volume has four major creators: Alfred Howitt; Benjamin Herschel Babbage; David Hergott; and Cuthbert Charles Clarke. The linchpin is Howitt's presidential address to the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Adelaide in 1907.