The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery/Insanity/the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier - Tapa dura

Murgatroyd, Sarah

 
9780767908283: The Dig Tree: The Story of Bravery/Insanity/the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier
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ISBN 10: 0767908287 ISBN 13: 9780767908283
Editorial: Broadway Books, 2002

Sinopsis

Describes the mid-nineteenth-century Burke and Wells expedition in which eighteen amateur explorers took on the task of charting a course across the vast unmapped interior of Australia from Melbourne to the northern coast, recounting the tragic, nightmarish results of that odyssey.

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A journalist and adventure traveler, SARAH MURGATROYD has covered current affairs for the BBC and produced a variety of radio documentaries, including a special series on Aboriginal issues. Her recent travels took her across Australia, where she trekked the route taken by Burke and Wills. A native of England, she now lives in Sydney. This is her first book.

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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 thousands of well-wishers. Their mission: to chart a course across the vast unmapped interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the northern coast. Months later, only one man returned alive--with tales of heroism, hardships, and lost opportunities that were by turns terrifying and darkly comic.

Drawing its title from one of the few remaining traces of the expedition, The Dig Tree combines the danger of Sebastian Junger with the irony of Bill Bryson to relive the tragic journey of these completely initiated adventurers. The cast of characters includes the expeditionleader; a reckless, charming Irish policeman known for getting lost on his way home from the pub; an eccentric nature enthusiast from Germany; an alcoholic camel handler; and a rogue American horse-breaker who is just in it for the money. For nine harrowing months, their quest for glory shifts from idiocy to perseverance and then inexorably toward tragedy. The nightmare culminates in a last haunting message left behind a group of desperate and dying men--the word DIG carved into what is now Australia's most famous tree.

The Dig Tree follows this compelling journey through a forgotten corner of history to examine a daring expedition that came unbelievably close to success only to let it slip away.

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Editorial
Broadway Books
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0767908287
ISBN 13 
9780767908283
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
304
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