Starvation in a Land of Plenty: Wills' Diary of the Fateful Burke and Wills Expedition by Michael Cathcart

Starvation in a Land of Plenty: Wills' Diary of the Fateful Burke and Wills Expedition

Michael Cathcart

308 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative sad medium-paced
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Between 23 April and 28 June 1861, Wills documented the torments and disappointments that led to his and Burke’s destruction. Surprising to many, though, Wills was not the second-in-command but, rather, the party’s ‘surveyor, astronomical and mete...

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