Cooper's Creek
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In 1860, two men set out to do what no European had ever done — cross the vast, unforgiving interior of the Australian continent from south to north — and their catastrophic failure became one of history's most haunting tales of ambition and survival. Cooper's Creek chronicles the doomed Burke and Wills expedition with a narrative urgency that reads more like a thriller than a history book, tracing the journey of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills as they push into the scorching Australian outback, only to perish within miles of rescue. Alan Moorehead, one of the twentieth century's most gifted narrative historians, brings his trademark clarity and elegance to this gripping account, weaving together meticulous research with a journalist's instinct for drama. His prose illuminates the human cost of hubris, poor planning, and sheer bad luck against the backdrop of an ancient and indifferent landscape. A celebrated war correspondent turned historian, Moorehead presents Australia's interior not merely as a geographical challenge but as a crucible that lays bare the fragility of the human spirit — leaving the reader to wonder how close greatness and disaster truly are.
Author: Alan Moorehead
Format: Hardback
Published: 1963, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
In 1860, two men set out to do what no European had ever done — cross the vast, unforgiving interior of the Australian continent from south to north — and their catastrophic failure became one of history's most haunting tales of ambition and survival. Cooper's Creek chronicles the doomed Burke and Wills expedition with a narrative urgency that reads more like a thriller than a history book, tracing the journey of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills as they push into the scorching Australian outback, only to perish within miles of rescue. Alan Moorehead, one of the twentieth century's most gifted narrative historians, brings his trademark clarity and elegance to this gripping account, weaving together meticulous research with a journalist's instinct for drama. His prose illuminates the human cost of hubris, poor planning, and sheer bad luck against the backdrop of an ancient and indifferent landscape. A celebrated war correspondent turned historian, Moorehead presents Australia's interior not merely as a geographical challenge but as a crucible that lays bare the fragility of the human spirit — leaving the reader to wonder how close greatness and disaster truly are.