I would assume every Australian knows the story of Burke & Wills to cross the Australian continent in 1861 like every Brit knows the later Scott of the Antarctic. Like the Antarctic expedition the planning and strategy was haphazard and the choice of a leader was perhaps not ideal. Like Scott they w...
bookshelves: re-read, re-visit-2013, afr-ethiopia Read from July 29 to August 05, 2013 Opening: The Blue Nile pours very quietly and uneventfully out of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. There is no waterfall or cataract, no definite current, nothing in fact to indicate that a pa...
Opening: The Blue Nile pours very quietly and uneventfully out of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. There is no waterfall or cataract, no definite current, nothing in fact to indicate that a part at least of this gently moving flow is embarked upon a momentous journey to the Mediterra...
To Freya StarkOpening: The Zanzibar that Burton and Speke first saw at the end of 1856 was a much more important place than it is today; indeed, it was almost the only centre of overseas commerce worth the name along the whole East Africa seaboard. Mutesa of BugandaRipon Falls Murchison falls Lady ...
The Burke and Wills monument in Melbourne in the eighteen-sixtiesHand written inscription:Best wishes fromEileen & KeithJuly 1966Opening: Here, perhaps more than anywhere, humanity had a chance to make a fresh start.Peppered with glossy photographs and sketches.From the authors note: Mr Sidney Nola...
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