Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt by John Bailey

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good to near fine. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned.

Ludwig Leichhardt is Australia's most intriguing explorer. Born and educated in Prussia in the early 19th century, Leichhardt was a polymath, a man fascinated by the natural world and possessed by a longing for adventure and exploration.

Australia was then almost entirely unexplored apart from the colonies clustered on its coastline, with the interior a vast and mysterious blank. It was a continent and a time ripe for amateur naturalists and explorers, and Leichhardt took up the challenge.

His expeditions were to begin in triumph, then dwindle into acrimony, despair, and misery before finally ending in disappearance and death, giving rise to one of the enduring mysteries of Australian history. (publisher blurb)