Tanami: On Foot Across Australia's Desert Heart by Kieran Kelly

Tanami: On Foot Across Australia's Desert Heart by Kieran Kelly

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780330421287
Author: Kieran Kelly
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2004
Format: Paperback
Pages: 325 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned.Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

A mystery to most Australians, the Tanami Desert is a waterless hell of dense scrub and spinifex-infested sand ridges. Sun scorched and isolated, it occupies the heart of Australia, where men searched in vain for an inland sea.

In the nineteenth century, two of Australia's greatest horseback explorers, Augustus Gregory and John McDouall Stuart, both tried and failed to cross it. Large parts of the Tanami remain a trackless wilderness impassable to motor vehicles.

In mid-2002, two men set out to attempt something previously unrecorded - a crossing of the Tanami Desert on foot. What they had in their favour, which both Gregory and Stuart did not, were camels - and in Andrew Harper, a man who knew how to work with them.

Two years in the planning, the trip rekindled the golden age of Australian exploration, as Kieran Kelly, a 49-year-old Sydney merchant banker, and Harper, without a support crew, pitted themselves and their five camels against the very worst the desert could throw at them.

This account of their epic adventure and struggle to survive in a hostile environment is a classic of courage, humour and tenacity, set against the backdrop of one of the world's great deserts. (back cover)

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