Alan Moorehead

Cooper's Creek

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1963, first British edition

Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback with dustcover, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch (8vo), 222 pp., map on the endpapers, index, b/w illustrations.

Good copy with heavily foxed fore edge, good clean pages throughout. Dustcover is worn and chipped, now protected.

Contents:

Documented account of the Burke and Wills expedition. 'An extraordinary book, peopled with a remarkable galley of characters; among the members of the expedition, Burke, its dashing but inexperienced Irish leader; Wills, his heroic second-in-command; King, perhaps the most poignant figure of all; Wright, but for whose delays all might have been saved, and Brahe, who deserted his post.'