The Explorers
by Bill Peach
From the ABC Television Series
ABC Enterprises, 1984, [First Edition], ISBN 0642975914, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations throughout, colour photographic frontispiece, large hardcover, dustjacket
Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners inscription on front end paper, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners (see photographs)
“Based on Bill Peach’s television series for the ABC, The Explorers describes the journeys of those men who gradually made Australia known to its settlers. There were many successful expeditions and there were also failures and disasters, but the story of exploration is dramatic and full of interest. In one volume Peach pits together a succinct and informative account of all Australia’s notable explorers, men like Hume and Hovell, Leichhardt, Giles, Burke and Wills, Oxley, Mitchell, Sturt, Eyre, the Forrest brothers, the Gregory brothers, Blaxland, Lawson, Wentworth, Kennedy, and Stuart. The book is well illustrate and has an index for easy reference.”