The Australian Explorers - Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements


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"The Story of the Exploration of Australia is one which we cannot willingly let die. There are many reasons for keeping alive the remembrance of such heroic deeds. It is due to the memory of those men who took their lives in their hands, and, in many cases, laid their bones in the desert; it is an act of
gratitude on our part, who have entered on their labours; and it is a kind of information indispensable to every Australian who desires to know the history
of his country." - Summary from the Author's Preface (6 hr 50 min)

Chapters

Preface 6:43 Read by Son of the Exiles
Introduction. Pioneer Navigators 39:54 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter I. The Pioneers of the Blue Mountains 14:58 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter II. Surveyor Evan's Discovery of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers and t… 4:16 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter III. Oxley's Expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers 13:03 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter IV. Hume and Hovell's Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip 13:24 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter V. Allan Cunningham's Explorations 21:15 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter VI. Captain Sturt's Three Expeditions 49:40 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter VII. Eyre's Adventurous Journey Along the Great Australian Bight 23:33 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter VIII. Sir Thomas Mitchell's Four Expeditions 50:00 Read by Jim Locke
Chapter IX. Kennedy's Disastrous Expedition to Cape Yorke 15:45 Read by Craig Franklin
Chapter X. Leichhardt's Expedition to Port Essington and into the Interior 18:29 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter XI. Mr. A. C. Gregory's Expedition to the North-West Interior 6:44 Read by Piotr Nater
Chapter XII. Burke and Wills's Expedition Across the Australian Continent 25:47 Read by Son of the Exiles
Chapter XIII. Search Expeditions in Quest of Burke and Wills 17:33 Read by Jim Locke
Chapter XIV. John McDouall Stuart’s Expeditions in the South, to the Centre, an… 25:40 Read by Jim Locke
Chapter XV. Colonel Warburton's Journey Across the Western Interior 18:04 Read by Craig Franklin
Chapter XVI. The Hon. John Forrest's Explorations in Western Australia 16:05 Read by jenno
Chapter XVII. Mr. Ernest Giles's Explorations in Central and Western Australia 16:10 Read by jenno
Chapter XVIII. Other Explorers in Western Australia - Conclusion 12:58 Read by jenno

Reviews


(4.5 stars)

This is outstanding record of our country’s exploration.......BUT it is a crime that it is put forth with this positively SHOCKING reader!!!!! It should definitely be reproduced with a good suitably good reader!!!!