The Dig Tree - Sarah Murgatroyd

Category: Autobiography & Biographies, History
Language: English
Keywords: Australian Burke & Wills explorers

Written by Sarah Murgatroyd
Read by Catherine Milte
Format: M4B
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Unabridged

The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia’s Wild Frontier
By: Sarah Murgatroyd
Narrated by: Catherine Milte
Release date
04-01-2010
Language
English
Format
Audiobook
Length
12 hrs and 24 mins
Publisher
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Categories
History

In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O’Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of Melbourne. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to become the first European to cross the Australian continent. A few months later, an ancient coolibah tree at Cooper Creek bore a strange carving: ‘Dig Under 3ft NW’. Burke, Wills and five other men were dead. The expedition had become an astonishing tragedy.

Sarah Murgatroyd reveals new historical and scientific evidence to tell the story of the disaster with all its heroism and romance, its discoveries, coincidences, and lost opportunities. This is a spell-binding book.

©2002 Sarah Murgatroyd (P)2009 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd