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Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt by John Bailey

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November 2011, no. 336

Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt by John Bailey

Macmillan, $34.99 pb, 381 pp, 9781742610450

Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt by John Bailey

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November 2011, no. 336

In 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and half a dozen companions set out from Queensland’s Darling Downs, intending to cross the continent to the Swan River Colony in Western Australia. The entire expedition disappeared, virtually without trace. Since then at least fifteen government and private expeditions have tried to determine what happened to them. Innumerable magazine and newspaper articles have appeared, and many theories have been proposed, yet the fate of the expedition remains as mysterious now as it was in 1850. It is this mystery that has enshrined Leichhardt in the Australian consciousness – how could an entire expedition disappear so utterly? Where in the great outback did it come to grief? Indeed, for many, Leichhardt and the outback have become mostly synonymous.

Darrell Lewis reviews 'Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt' by John Bailey

Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt

by John Bailey

Macmillan, $34.99 pb, 381 pp, 9781742610450

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