Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills are probably Australia’s most famous explorers, yet their expedition across Australia to the Gulf of Carpentaria was an expensive failure.

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The Atlas of François Péron’s Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands completes the new translation of the offic...

Australians are famous for talking about the weather.

Over the past two to three years, weather conversations  have become, for South Australians, almost an obsession, as we scan the sky f...

Bungaree - Land, Stock and People  is a record of one family's role in shaping part of Australia.  It is an enthralling adventure and a lively, easy-...

Voyage of discovery to the southern lands by François Péron. 'Dissertations on various subjects' (Book V).

The Friends have published the Dissert...

Between 1872 and 1876 Ernest Giles led five expeditions in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and crossed more undiscovered country than any other Australian explorer.

On 25 February 1841 Eyre, John Baxter, three Aborigines, eleven horses and six sheep set out from the Head of the Bight to explore an overland route to Western Australia.

Only Eyre, one Ab...

Explorations in Australia is Forrest’s account of his three expeditions into the interior.

His first, in 1869, was to investigate reports of Lud...

Personal reminiscences of Central Australia and the Burke and Wills expedition, with a glance at Benamin Herchel Babbage's 1858 expedition.

A 2 CD set p...

Many believe that Alfred Howitt, an experienced bushman who had already taken a small and successful expedition into South Australia’s outback, should have led the Burke and Wills Expedition. Instea...

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Published to celebrate the Friends 75 years of service to the Library and our gifts to its various collections.

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Ornithologist and explorer Captain S A White made several journeys into outback South and Central Australia between 1911 and 1922.
In 1913 Captain White took his wife, Ethel, on a trip lasting ...

Between May 1858 and December 1862 John McDouall Stuart led six expeditions, initially to find the centre of the continent, and then to reach the north coast. In those four and a half years he spent ...

This fascinating account of Stuart's second journey of exploration — for which no original manuscript survives — is the first serious attempt to publish Stuart's own words.

Each of the...

This book republishes six-and-a-bit South Australian parliamentary papers between 1865 and 1867, in what has been described as 'one of the greatest failures ever recorded in the annals of exploration'...

Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell was one of the most controversial and enigmatic of Australian explorers. Born in Scotland in 1792, he arrived in Sydney in 1827 having accepted the position of Assista...

Allan Davidson is one of Australia’s least-known inland explorers, yet his two expeditions north of Alice Springs yielded, as fellow explorer Charles Winnecke writes, ‘a very material contribution...

In 1861 the Queensland Government sent William Landsborough by sea to the site of Burketown, from where he was to head south searching for the overdue Burke and Wills.

He didn’t find th...

The Journal begins on the first day of Flinders' detention at Ile de France (Mauritius) in December 1803 and continues after his return to England in 1810. The...

Thomas Horton James arrived in South Australia in January 1838, already at that time a dissension-torn province. He was not impressed. The passengers had to walk through mud from the boat to dry land...