Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Metric Conversation Table List of Illustrations Introduction * One: In the Beginning * Two: The Great Inland Sea * Three: Mapping the Rivers * Four: Australian Morning * Five: The Heroic Heart * Six: What for do you walk? * Seven: The Heart of the Dark Continent * Eight: Seven Months Underground * Nine: To the Very Centre * Ten: Unburied as I lie * Eleven: The Last Australian Explorer; Envoi Maps Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Author Derek Parker has been an editor and a critic, and is the author of eight previous biographies. He has co-authored with his wife Julia another 28 titles on various subjects, from astrology to travel.