Hamilton Hume : the life & times of our greatest explorer / Robert Macklin.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2016.Description: xviii, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780733634055
- 0733634052
- Hamilton Hume : our greatest explorer [Cover title]
- 994.02092 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 994.02 MAC | Available | 065113 |
"The epic story of the man who discovered Australia's greatest rivers and richest farmlands"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302) and index.
While English-born soldiers, sailors and surveyors have claimed pride of place among the explorers of the young New South Wales colony, the real pathfinder was a genuine native-born Australian. Hamilton Hume, a man with a profound understanding of the Aboriginal people and an almost mystical relationship with the Australian bush, led settlers from the cramped surrounds of Sydney Town to the vast fertile country that would provide the wealth to found and sustain a new nation. Robert Macklin, author of the critically acclaimed DARK PARADISE, tells the heroic tale of this young Australian man who outdid his English 'betters' by crossing the Blue Mountains, finding a land route from Sydney to Port Phillip and opening up western New South Wales. His contribution to the development of the colony was immense but downplayed in deference to explorers of British origin. HAMILTON HUME uncovers this brave man's achievements and paints an intriguing and at times shocking portrait of colonial life, by the author of the bestselling SAS SNIPER.