Famous Trip Reports
Submitted: Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:09
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Lyds
Fellow Intrepid Travellers,
Ever get stuck writing trip reports? Then check out how the travellers of old wrote them? Their english may make plagiarising difficult and they didn't follow the "Tread Lightly" credo, but great reading none the less!!!
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/themes/travel.html#Australia
This is the University of
Adelaide Library’s collection of free online Web books. The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History.
With a whole section on Australian Exploration, you can read up on all the dudes that found half the tracks we now drive on.
BTW, I have no affiliation with UoA.
Reply By: robak (QLD) - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:27
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:27
Fantastic. Thanks for that.
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Reply By: Rick (S.A.) - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 17:16
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 17:16
And you can go to:
www.johnmcdouallstuart.org.au
for details of Australia's Greatest Explorer.
Many of us have travelled along his principal
routes, which now have in part become the Stuart Highway;
Oodnadatta Track; Ghan railway line, etc...
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Sand Man (SA) - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 20:29
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 20:29
Rick,
Thanks for the link mate. I haven't read about John McDouall Stuart since my Primary School days.
What an absolute champion bloke. As a born & bred South Aussie, but with a proud Scottish
heritage, his exploits brought a tear to my eye.
Oh, and now I know why the cultural animosity exists between us and those Mexicans to the East of us:-)))
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Follow Up By: Rick (S.A.) - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 21:04
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 21:04
Cheers Sand Man - I'd be interested at some stage to hear your little tale of ancestry.
........but you have me wondering why they in the east display animosity (apart from they suck at AFL, hahahaha) towards us???????
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Follow Up By: equinox - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 21:26
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 21:26
Thats easy Rick.
Even though Burke and Wills came earlier, Stuart takes the prize in my opinion anyway. At least he made it back alive. Burke was an idiot and the Vics love him.
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Reply By: madCrow - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 17:40
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 17:40
More thanks to you Lyds.
The site is bookmarked & I've already downloaded the short history of Aussi land.
Thanks again
madCrow
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Reply By: Dave McC - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 18:15
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 18:15
Thanks Stuart for that site. A very interesting read:
A remarkable first hand account of a survivor of an expedition from Rockingham Bay (
Cardwell) to
Cape York in 1848.
When the bumps, dust and flies get a bit too much on my next trip, the thought of what the early
explorers went through will make things easy.
Dave
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Follow Up By: Dave McC - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 18:17
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 18:17
Sorry the link is
Site Link
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Reply By: Jacked off - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 19:30
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 19:30
What a great site!
I travelled with a bloke who retraced the trip shown on the site made by Liechhardt a number of years ago. He and the team was did it on horseback (as part of his research for his doctorate) while I drove the support vehicle.
A quick look at the first couple of chapters has bought some great memories back of the areas we travelled through.
I certainly will be sitting down to have a good look at that story and many others in the conning months.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Jacked off - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 19:34
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 19:34
Looks like I'll need to learn how to spell and form sentences properly before I write my next trip report (conning = comming & 'was did' = did).
What a shocker!!
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Follow Up By: Member - Brian (Gold Coast) - Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 20:59
Thursday, Aug 24, 2006 at 20:59
comming actually = coming.....
sorry couldn't resist that one dude!
Cheers
Brian
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