Devil Been Walkabout Tonight
The Death Of Burke & Wills At Cooper's Creek: April - July 1861
$31.28
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2024
Summary
This book focuses on the last three months of Robert O’Hara Burke, William John Wills, and John King on Cooper’s Creek. The original expedition, which set out in August 1860, was to explore the centre and northern reaches of the Australian continent. The expedition essentially concluded with the death of Burke and Wills on Coopers Creek from starvation and illness in late June and early July 1861.
The tragedy was a sliding doors moment in history. Burke, Wills, and King arrived back a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923144354 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923144359 |
| Author: | David W. Cameron |
| Publisher: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Imprint: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 155mm x 301mm |
| Series: | A Shot of History |
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David W. Cameron
David W. Cameron is a Canberra-based author who has written several books on Australian military and convict history, as well as human and primate evolution, including over 60 internationally peer-reviewed papers for various journals and book chapters. He received 1st Class Honours in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Sydney and later went on to complete his PhD in palaeoanthropology at the Australian National University. He is a former Australian Research Council (ARC) Post Doctorial Fellow at the Australian National University (School of Archaeology) and an ARC QEII Fellow at the University of Sydney (Department of Anatomy and Histology). He has participated and led several international fieldwork teams in Australia, the Middle East (Turkey, Jordan, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates), Europe (Hungary) and Asia (Japan, Vietnam and India) and has participated in many conferences and museum studies throughout the world.
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