Australian Explorers - Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements
George Grimm
20 chapters · 6 h 50 min · English
Read by Son of the Exiles, Jim Locke, Craig Franklin, Piotr Nater, jenno
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"The Story of the Exploration of Australia is one which we cannot willingly let die. There are many reasons for keeping alive the remembrance of such heroic deeds. It is due to the memory of those men who took their lives in their hands, and, in many cases, laid their bones in the desert; it is an act of
gratitude on our part, who have entered on their labours; and it is a kind of information indispensable to every Australian who desires to know the history
of his country." - Summary from the Author's Preface
Chapters
1 Preface 7 min 2 Introduction. Pioneer Navigators 40 min 3 Chapter I. The Pioneers of the Blue Mountains 15 min 4 Chapter II. Surveyor Evan's Discovery of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers and the Bathurst Plains 4 min 5 Chapter III. Oxley's Expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers 13 min 6 Chapter IV. Hume and Hovell's Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip 13 min 7 Chapter V. Allan Cunningham's Explorations 21 min 8 Chapter VI. Captain Sturt's Three Expeditions 50 min 9 Chapter VII. Eyre's Adventurous Journey Along the Great Australian Bight 24 min 10 Chapter VIII. Sir Thomas Mitchell's Four Expeditions 50 min 11 Chapter IX. Kennedy's Disastrous Expedition to Cape Yorke 16 min 12 Chapter X. Leichhardt's Expedition to Port Essington and into the Interior 18 min 13 Chapter XI. Mr. A. C. Gregory's Expedition to the North-West Interior 7 min 14 Chapter XII. Burke and Wills's Expedition Across the Australian Continent 26 min 15 Chapter XIII. Search Expeditions in Quest of Burke and Wills 18 min 16 Chapter XIV. John McDouall Stuart's Expeditions in the South, to the Centre, and Across the Continent 26 min 17 Chapter XV. Colonel Warburton's Journey Across the Western Interior 18 min 18 Chapter XVI. The Hon. John Forrest's Explorations in Western Australia 16 min 19 Chapter XVII. Mr. Ernest Giles's Explorations in Central and Western Australia 16 min 20 Chapter XVIII. Other Explorers in Western Australia - Conclusion 13 min
