The Hero as Murderer: The Life of Edward John Eyre, Australian Explorer and Governor of Jamaica 1815–1901 by Geoffrey Dutton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamp on inside page. Previous owners name on half-title page has been white-outed. Wear to book corners and edges. Rubbing to tail foredge. Dust jacket has creasing at top and tail edges and at spine. Now enclosed with protective plastic cover. Binding is still very good.

Edward John Eyre was probably one of the most misrepresented men in 19th-century colonialism. His career was a paradox. Celebrated to this day in Australia as one of the great explorers, he was later reviled by the leading British liberal intellectuals as a monster of cruelty and oppression. (book flap)