Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the Ye… Volume 1
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, during the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831With Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales\nAuthor(s): Charles Sturt\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108038850, 978-1108038850\nSynopsis\nCharles Sturt [tel] was a British soldier, sent to New South Wales in charge of convicts in 1826. In 1827 Governor Darling appointed him to lead the first of two expeditions into the interior, in search of pastoral land for settlement and a navigable river system. Sturt's two-volume account of his journeys, published in 1833, begins with a description of the colony. Volume 1 focuses on the expedition of 18289, when Sturt and a small party travelled on horseback down the Macquarie River until it turned into marshes. Skirting the unhealthy swamps, they eventually discovered and named the Darling River, but wer.
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