In fact her writing personality is clearly discernible here. She makes exploration at second hand as vivid as she did her own travels as she constructs her record of the perseverance and energy of brave...
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1860-November 1861: Robert O. Burke and William J. Wills became...
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1860-November 1861
Robert O. Burke
and William J. Wills
became the first Europeans to cross Australia from south to north; they perished on the return journey.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 930-1
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
