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Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales
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Notes

  • Includes vocabulary of Aboriginal words having the same meaning in different parts of Australia (v.2, p. 377-384)

Affiliation Notes

  • Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

    Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855) was an explorer and surveyor-general of New South Wales. He worked as both Assistant Surveyor-General and later Surveyor-General of New South Wales from 1827-1855. The account of his explorations is presented in Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales. This extensively illustrated two-volume travel narrative is a traditional exploration text that detailed the party's route throughout the Australian outback, the temperature, geographical locations, discoveries, and daily incidents of travel. Mitchell prefaced the work with a statement about Australia: "Though Australia calls up no historical recollection, no classical associations of ideas, it has other, and not less valid titles to our attention. It is a new and vast country, over the largest portion of which a veil of mystery still hangs." Volume I contained a description of Mitchell's journey in search of the Kindur in 1831-2 and Volume II included an account of an expedition to the Rivers Darling and Murray in the 1836. Mitchell also published Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848).

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      Extent: 2 vols.p.
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      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Local Id: DSM / 981/ 2A2 (1838)
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       T. and W. Boone ,       1839 .
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      • Prepared from the print edition published by T.& W. Boone : London, 1839.

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      Held at: State Library of Tasmania State Library of Tasmania
      Location: Australian Collection
      Local Id: 919.409
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       T. and W. Boone ,       1839 .
      Extent: 2 vols.p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed., carefully revised
      Description: illus., maps, ports.
    • Maryborough, Maryborough (Vic) area, Clunes - Maryborough - Dunolly area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,: Eagle Press , 1996 .
      Extent: 2 vols.p.
      Edition info: Limited ed. of 400 numbered sets, signed by the publisher, Brian A. Kelly; the first 40 sets are bound in full leather.
      Edition info: On Libraries Australia entry: Reprint. Originally published 2nd ed., carefully rev London : T. & W. Boone, 1839 Ferguson 2811
      Description: illus., maps
      ISBN: 0646254421 (set), 0646254464 (v. 2), 0646254456 (v. 1)
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Related Works

On Pyramid Hill, Victoria, 1836 Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , 1928 extract prose travel (Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales)
— Appears in: The Victorian Reading-Books : Eighth Book 1928; (p. 4-5) The Victorian Reading-Books : Eighth Book 1940; (p. 2-3)
At the Darling River (from Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with Descriptions of the Newly Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales) Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , 1989 extract prose travel (Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales)
— Appears in: Colonial Voices : Letters, Diaries, Journalism and Other Accounts of Nineteenth-Century Australia 1989; (p. 65-70)
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Works about this Work

The Nineteenth-Century Australian Inland Exploration Journal and Pleasurable Instruction Kerry Heckenberg , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia Bulletin , vol. 28 no. 1-2 2004; (p. 93-110)
Sometimes Words are Not Enough : Re-Inventing Major Mitchell's Colonial Past Kirsty Douglas , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Crossings : Bulletin of the International Australian Studies Association , vol. 7 no. 1,2 & 3 2002; (p. 85-91)
Mopping and Mowing in the Mulga Robert Dixon , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hemisphere , December vol. 22 no. 12 1978; (p. 6-11) Dixon discusses the way in which the colonial writers and artists merged classical allusion and local landscape, so that landscape was conceived 'in iconographic terms; in the manner of a traditional multi-level allegory' (p).
Sir Thomas Mitchell and the 'Herald' Francis O'Brien , 1841 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser , 24 March vol. 16 no. 1886 1841; (p. 2) The writer for the Sydney Monitor (probably Francis O'Brien) scolds the Sydney Herald's writer for the 'scycophancy' displayed in the Herald's review of Major Thomas Mitchell's Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales. This column is the second occasion on which the Montior has taken the Herald to task on this subject.
Review 1841 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Herald , 20 March vol. 11 no. 1196 1841; (p. 4)
— Review of Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , 1838 single work prose
Review James Rennie , 1841 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Herald , 11 March vol. 11 no. 1188 1841; (p. 4)
— Review of Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , 1838 single work prose
Review 1841 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Herald , 20 March vol. 11 no. 1196 1841; (p. 4)
— Review of Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , 1838 single work prose
The Nineteenth-Century Australian Inland Exploration Journal and Pleasurable Instruction Kerry Heckenberg , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia Bulletin , vol. 28 no. 1-2 2004; (p. 93-110)
Sometimes Words are Not Enough : Re-Inventing Major Mitchell's Colonial Past Kirsty Douglas , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Crossings : Bulletin of the International Australian Studies Association , vol. 7 no. 1,2 & 3 2002; (p. 85-91)
Mopping and Mowing in the Mulga Robert Dixon , 1978 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hemisphere , December vol. 22 no. 12 1978; (p. 6-11) Dixon discusses the way in which the colonial writers and artists merged classical allusion and local landscape, so that landscape was conceived 'in iconographic terms; in the manner of a traditional multi-level allegory' (p).
Sir Thomas Mitchell and the 'Herald' Francis O'Brien , 1841 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser , 17 March vol. 16 no. 1883 1841; (p. 2) The writer for the Sydney Monitor (probably Francis O'Brien) scolds the Sydney Herald's writer (probably James Rennie) for the 'scycophancy' displayed in the Herald's review of Major Thomas Mitchell's Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales.
Sir Thomas Mitchell and the 'Herald' Francis O'Brien , 1841 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser , 24 March vol. 16 no. 1886 1841; (p. 2) The writer for the Sydney Monitor (probably Francis O'Brien) scolds the Sydney Herald's writer for the 'scycophancy' displayed in the Herald's review of Major Thomas Mitchell's Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia : With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales. This column is the second occasion on which the Montior has taken the Herald to task on this subject.
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