Thomas Baines: Exploring Tropical Australia 1855 to 1857

Description

This book focuses on a little known but fascinating contribution by Thomas Baines to Augustus Gregory's North Australian Expedition: the artist-explorer's audacious attempt, in an open longboat, to link up with Gregory at the southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Here, for the first time, the remarkably accurate map that Baines complied of this voyage and extracts from his accompanying manuscript journals are evaluated and published.

Jane Carruthers is a professor in the department of history at the University of South Africa, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has held visiting fellowships at the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia and she is currently president of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organisations. She is a coauthor of The Life and Work of Thomas Baines . Lindy Stiebel is a professor of English at the University of KwaZuluNatal, South Africa. She is the editor of a collection of essays entitled Thomas Baines and the 'Great Map' and Imagining Africa . She has published in a variety of local and international academic journals on spatial discourse and South African writing.