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'Ludwig Leichhardt is Australia's most intriguing explorer. Born and educated in Prussia in the early 19th century, Leichhardt was a polymath, a man fascinated by the natural world and possessed by a longed for adventure and exploration. Australia was then almost completely unexplored apart from the colonies clustered on its coastline-the interior a vast and mysterious blank. It was a continent and a time ripe for amateur naturalists and explorers, and Leichhardt took up the challenge.
'His expeditions were to begin in triumph, then dwindle into acrimony, despair and misery before finally ending in disappearance and death and giving rise to one of the enduring mysteries of the Australian history.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: To my good friend, Annie Mullin
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Epigraph: 'Voss did not die,' Miss Trevelyan replied. 'He is there still, it is said, in the country, and always will be. His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who have been troubled by it.' - Voss, Patrick White.
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Untitled
2012
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— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , December vol. 36 no. 4 2012; (p. 515-516)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography -
Untitled
2012
single work
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— Appears in: Historical Records of Australian Science , June vol. 23 no. 1 2012; (p. 85-86)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography -
Lost Soul Rides into the Sunset
2012
single work
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 June 2012; (p. 36)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography -
Leichhart's Adventurous Life Explored, Flaws and All
2012
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 March 2012; (p. 20)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography -
Untitled
2012
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— Appears in: Sun-Herald , 12 February 2012; (p. 7)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography
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Enduring Enigma of Leichhardt
2011
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 October 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography -
Bookshop
2011
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 6 November 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of Ruby Blues 2011 single work novel ; Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography -
Off the Shelf : Biography
2011
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 5 November 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography -
Who Was the Real Ludwig Leichhardt?
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside History , January - February no. 8 2012; (p. 66-67)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography -
Untitled
2012
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 14 January 2012; (p. 25)
— Review of Into the Unknown : The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt 2012 single work biography
Awards
- 2011 winner FAW Sid Harta Literature Award
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