$42.49
- Hardcover
544 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2020
Summary
‘They have left here today!’ he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.
MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off, farewelled by 15,000 cheering well-wishers. Led by Robert O’Hara Burke, a brave man totall…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733641305 |
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| ISBN-10: | 073364130X |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 910g |
| Dimensions: | 243mm x 165mm x 52mm |
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About The Author
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is Australia’s bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 30 years has also been a journalist and columnist with the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and the SUN-HERALD.
He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including BURKE AND WILLS, MONASH’S MASTERPIECE, KOKODA, NED KELLY and GALLIPOLI, as well as biographies of such notable Australians as Sir Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake and Nick Farr-Jones. His passion is to tell Australian stories, our own stories: of great men and women, of stirring events in our history.
Peter grew up on a farm north of Sydney, went to boarding school in Sydney and attended Sydney University. An ex-Wallaby, he also lived for several years in rural France and Italy, playing rugby for regional clubs. He and his wife Lisa Wilkinson - journalist, magazine editor and television presenter - have three children; they live in Sydney.
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