Lasseter's Last Ride: An Epic Of Central Australian Gold Discovery
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Thirtieth Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A gripping work of Australian adventure non-fiction, Lasseter's Last Ride chronicles the doomed 1930 expedition of Harold Bell Lasseter, a man obsessed with relocating a fabulously rich gold reef he claimed to have discovered deep in the unforgiving Australian outback decades earlier. Ion L. Idriess reconstructs the journey with vivid, almost novelistic intensity, drawing on Lasseter's own diary entries to detail the harrowing descent from high hopes into isolation, starvation, and ultimately death in the vast Central Australian desert. The narrative captures the brutal indifference of the landscape with unflinching authority, illustrating how the promise of unimaginable wealth drove men to the very edge of human endurance. Written in a propulsive, dramatic style that reads as much like adventure fiction as historical record, it stands as one of the most celebrated and enduring tales of obsession and tragedy in Australian literary history. The legend of Lasseter's Reef — never found, never disproven — haunts every page, making this a timeless account of the fatal allure of gold and the merciless power of the outback.
Author: Ion L. Idriess
Format: Hardback
Published: 1947, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Australian history
Edition: Thirtieth Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
A gripping work of Australian adventure non-fiction, Lasseter's Last Ride chronicles the doomed 1930 expedition of Harold Bell Lasseter, a man obsessed with relocating a fabulously rich gold reef he claimed to have discovered deep in the unforgiving Australian outback decades earlier. Ion L. Idriess reconstructs the journey with vivid, almost novelistic intensity, drawing on Lasseter's own diary entries to detail the harrowing descent from high hopes into isolation, starvation, and ultimately death in the vast Central Australian desert. The narrative captures the brutal indifference of the landscape with unflinching authority, illustrating how the promise of unimaginable wealth drove men to the very edge of human endurance. Written in a propulsive, dramatic style that reads as much like adventure fiction as historical record, it stands as one of the most celebrated and enduring tales of obsession and tragedy in Australian literary history. The legend of Lasseter's Reef — never found, never disproven — haunts every page, making this a timeless account of the fatal allure of gold and the merciless power of the outback.