Waterless Horizons: The First Full-Length Study of the Extraordinary Life-Story of Edward John Eyre, Explorer, Overlander and Pastoralist in Australia by Malcolm Uren and Robert Stephens

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Secondhand. Fair condition. Ex-library copy with stamps and a remnant date due slip on inside pages. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on covers. Pages are sunned. No jacket. Body text and binding are still in good condition. Book is now in non-adhesive plastic covering.

A thrilling narrative, which, through years of painstaking historical research, readers will enjoy like a novel. This is the first time a full-length portrait of explorer Edward Eyre has been written, relying on new material sourced from the Mitchell Library in Sydney, including letters from Eyre to his wife.

Malcolm Uren and Robert Stephens contend that historians have somewhat ignored Eyre. They show that as an overlander and explorer, he did extremely valuable work in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia. From the explorer's own journals, his explorations in South Australia, north of Spencer Gulf, in Eyre Peninsula and westward are told. In Western Australia, the highlight was the epic walk around the head of the Great Australian Bight from Fowler's Bay to King George's Sound in 1841. (Sunraysia Daily 10 December 1941)