In Leichhardt's Footsteps

Hi Willem

I enjoyed the read a lot...Bruce has also written a book 'Where the Dead Men Lie" which covers graves in remote places in South East Qld. It gives a lot of interesting detail and we visited a number of the places outlined in both his Leichhardt book and Where Deadmen lie on one of our trips.

Bruce has also written a couple of books full of bush poetry.....

Cheers.

Hi Willem,

I haven't really studied Leichhardt much (yet), but I like a good mystery.

When he went missing he had himself and six whities and two blacks, fifty bullocks, thirteen mules, twelve horses, two hundered and seventy goats, eight hundered pounds of flour, one hundered and twenty pounds of tea, sugar and salt, and two hundered and fifty pounds of shot and forty pounds of powder.

He must be out there somewhere....

Will keep a eye out for the book.

Cheers
Alan

We currently stock one of Bruce Simpson's book - Where the Dead Men Lie but I don't see Leichhardt's Footsteps - ABC books is one of our suppliers so if any of you want this, let Michael know and he will try to get it in for you.

MM

Willem, whats the ISBN number? Might try to get it thru my local library or something.

Ta.

Young Willem ,

I am reading it at the moment too . The young fella lent it to me . You know what he is like on the subject of LL !

I read Liechhardt's diary of the Pt Essington trip and I have been a great admirer of his ever since . If anybody wants to read the fascinating diary , it is available free on line , at :
www.gutenberg.net.au/pages/leichhardt.

Willie

Thank you for that, Willem. I have been searching for something on Leichhardt, and that would seem to fit the bill.

Jack

Hi Willem,
Leichhardt is one of my favorite explorers.

...you can actually download Leichhardt's diary of an overland expedition by following the following link:
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

Just click on the PDF-button (49MB) and you can read his journal and have a look at his illustrations of his journey to Port Essington as well.

Cheers Steve.

"Ludwig Leichhardt's fate has never been solved"

Agreed, but parts of the mystery are getting clearer - or maybe murkier???

Have a sticky beak at this link which describes a gun nameplate attributed to Leichhardt found in the Kimberley. I heard this presentation exactly one year ago at Birdsville as part of the Burke & Wills conference. The National Museum of Australia bought it for $ 200,000.

http://www.nma.gov.au/audio/transcripts/leichhardt/NMA_hallam_20070615.html

Fascinatin'

Cheers

I have just started reading a book entitled "The Mystery of the Leichhardt Survivors - The Story Of the Men who sought to solve it" by Les Perrin. I am not too far into it as yet, but Perrin states on the back cover ...

"Whilst working as a medical officer with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Queensland, the author became fascinated with the story of Andrew Hume and his searches for a wild white man, an alleged survivor of the long-lost Leichhardt expedition, living with aborigines in the outback.

Hume was a highly colourful and controversial character. He was released from Paramatta Gaol, where he was serving a ten year sentence for 'Robbery Under Arms', in order to locate this survivor and hopefully solve the mustery of Leichhardt's fate.

Along with Lewis Thompson and Timothy O'Hea, a famous Victoria Cross winner, Hume became involved in a desperate struggle for survival near Cooper Creek, on remote Nockatunga Station .... "

ISBN 0640 02243 1

The book was first published in 1990. I found it in my local library.

It is interesting so far (three chapters in), and is classified "non fiction". Leichhardt watchers may find it of interest.

Jack