Eyre : the forgotten explorer / Ivan Rudolph
- Bib ID:
- 6389027
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rudolph, Ivan, author
- Edition:
- Paperback edition
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins, 2014
- ©2013
- xii, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780732299316
- Summary:
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"Edward John Eyre was one of the most intrepid explorers to tackle the unforgiving Australian outback - and one of the youngest. Lake Eyre, the Eyre Highway between Adelaide and Perth, and many other landmarks are named after him, yet so little is known of his time here. Author Ivan Rudolph shows how this idealistic young Englishman - still in his teens when he arrived in New South Wales in 1833 - transformed himself into a rugged frontiersman, one of the first to overland cattle to Melbourne and Adelaide. But it's Eyre's attempt on the Nullarbor that was the peak of his Australian career. Determined to find an overland route to Perth, he left Adelaide with a small party on 18 June 1840. Ivan Rudolph relates their journey step by step - and it makes for gripping reading. Beset by the harsh terrain, scarcity of water, the danger from hostile Indigenous people and dissent - and worse - among Eyre's companions, could Eyre achieve his ambition and find a way across the Nullarbor?"--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-395) and index.
- Subject:
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- Eyre, Edward John, 1815-1901
- Explorers -- Australia -- Biography
- Nawo / Nawu people (L2) (SA SI53-07)
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - Aboriginal guides
- History - Biographies - Non-Indigenous
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - 1901-
- Noongar / Nyungar / Nyungah people (W41) (WA SI50)
- Enterprises - Pastoral industry
- Mirning people (A9) (WA SH52-14)
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration
- Canberra / Goulburn / Snowy area (S NSW / ACT SI55, SJ55)
- River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
- Nullarbor Plain (SE WA, Far West SA SH51, SH52, SI52)
- Albany / King George Sound (SW WA SI50-11, SI50-15)
- Rufus River (SW NSW SI54-11)
- Perth (SW WA SH50-14)
- South Australia - West (SA SH53, SI53)
- Northern Victoria (N Vic)
- Moorundie (SE SA SI54-10)
- Melbourne (Vic SJ55-05)
- Port Lincoln (West SA SI53-11)
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Adelaide (SE SA SI54-09)
- Australian
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2013
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