The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier by Sarah Murgatroyd

The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier

Sarah Murgatroyd

355 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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The harrowing true story of the Burke and Willis expedition team who took on the Australian wilds 150 years ago--and lost.They departed Melbourne's Royal Park in the summer of 1860, a misfit party of eighteen amateur explorers cheered on by thousa...

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