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John McKinlay was the first European to lead a team across the Australian continent from the South Coast to the north and return safely, yet his story has never been told.
The journey resulted from McKinlay’s being chosen to lead the South Australian Burke Relief Expedition (although Burke and Wills were dead before he set out). It was a harrowing trip, complete with intense heat, floods, flies and starvation that was relieved near the end of the trip by camel’s feet soup.
On a second expedition, three years later McKinlay was stranded by the wet season in western Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. He saved his party of fifteen by building a punt from saplings and sailing for six days and nights down the swollen East Alligator River out into the Arafura Sea and back to the settlement they had left six months previously. It is one of the most amazing stories of survival in the history of Australian exploration.
Paperback, 194 p.p., 1995
In as new condition.
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