"Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2" by T. L. Mitchell is a detailed account of the author's explorations in the Australian interior. Mitchell, an accomplished surveyor and explorer, documents his journeys through uncharted territories, providing insights into the geography, flora, and fauna of the region. His observations are not only scientific but also reflect the challenges faced during these expeditions, including interactions with Indigenous peoples an...

"Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1" by T. L. Mitchell is a detailed account of the author's explorations in the Australian interior during the 19th century. Mitchell, an accomplished surveyor and explorer, meticulously documents his journeys through uncharted territories, providing insights into the geography, flora, and fauna of the region. His observations not only reflect the challenges faced during these expeditions but also highlight the beauty and vas...

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. For around 40,000 years before Eu...

William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mutiny occurred. William Bligh and eighteen of his loyal seamen were expelled from the "Bounty" onto a small boat and began the greatest open-boat voyage in history, sailing some 4,000 miles to protection in Timor. The mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, sailed off with the "Bounty" in other purs...

The Australian Exploration Anthology features the first-hand personal accounts of the explorers: Captain William Dampier, Captain James Cook, Matthew Flinders, John McDouall Stuart, John McKinlay and William Wills.This book charts the history of the exploration of the vast continent of Australia by the European newcomers who arrived at the last great habitable continent to be discovered. This comprehensive anthology begins with the initial seaborne forays of the sometime pirate Cap...

This is the journal of the two famous explorers who travelled the inland route to Port Phillip, Australia, in 1824.The Hume and Hovell expedition was one of the most important journeys of explorations undertaken in eastern Australia. In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hamilton Hume and former Royal Navy Captain William Hovell to lead an expedition to find new grazing land in the south of the colony, and also to find a...

In one respect this work differs from its predecessors. The companion volumes were written by travellers to the lands which they described, but Australian Pictures are by an Australian resident. Hence, when praise is required, the author has often preferred to quote some traveller of repute rather than to state his own impressions. Thanks have to be given to the Government of Victoria, which kindly placed all its works at the disposal of the author. The official history of the aborigines c...

According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. For around 40,000 years before Eu...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by David Livingstone, which is now, at last, again available to you.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa:Oswells Elephant-hunting-Return to Kolo...

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries by David Livingstone.

CONTENTS.CHAPTER 1.Previous Expeditions into the Interior.Attempts to Discover a Route between South and Western Australia.Eyre's Disastrous Journey.Leichardt, the Lost Explorer.The Latest Explorations.CHAPTER 2. FIRST EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF LEICHARDT.CHAPTER 3. SECOND EXPEDITION. FROM PERTH TO ADELAIDE, ROUND THE GREAT BIGHT.CHAPTER 4. RECEPTION AT ADELAIDE AND RETURN TO PERTH.CHAPTER 5. THIRD EXPEDITION. FROM THE WES...

The following Journals were written at the close of many a laborious day, when the energies both of mind and body were almost exhausted by long-continued toil. The author trusts that this circumstance will account for, and palliate, some of the defects which may be discovered in his volumes. Conscious as he is of the deficiencies of his work, he nevertheless hopes that the reader will not pronounce it to be wholly devoid of interest. Though Australia calls up no historical recollections, n...