Cooper's Creek: Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback

In 1860 an expedition set out from Melbourne Australia into the interior of the country with the mission to find a route to the northern coast. Headed by Robert OHara Burke and William John Wills the party of adventurers scientists and camels set out into the outback hoping to find enough water and to keep adequate food stores for their trek into the bush. Almost one year later Burke Wills and two others from their party Gray and King reached the northern shore but on their journey back they were stranded at Coopers Creek where all but King perished. Coopers Creek is a gripping intense historical narrative about the harshness of the Australian outback and the people who were brave enough to go into the very depths of that uncharted country.