Exploration: Australia

Books

BASSETT, Marnie. Realms and Islands: the world voyage of Rose de Freycinet in the Corvette Uranie 1817-1820. From her journal and letters and the reports of Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Captaine de Corvette. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.

CUNNINGHAM, Chris. The Blue Mountains Rediscovered: beyond the myths of early Australian exploration. East Roseville, NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1996.

DAWSON, Tony. James Meehan: a most excellent surveyor. Sydney: Crossing Press, 2004.

DYER, Colin. The French Explorers and Sydney 1788-1831. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2009.

Fourteen Journeys Over The Blue Mountains of New South Wales 1813-1841. (ed.) George Mackaness. Sydney: Horwitz, 1965.
[First published in 1950-51 in the original series of Australian Historical Monographs].

HORDERN, Marsden. King of the Australian Coast: the work of Phillip Parker King in the 'Mermaid' and 'Bathurst' 1817 - 1822 Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 1997.

JOHNSON, Richard. The Search for the Inland Sea: John Oxley, explorer, 1783-1828. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001.

KASS, Terry. Sails To Satellites: the Surveyors General of NSW (1786-2007). Bathurst: NSW Department of Lands, 2008.

Limits of Location: creating a colony. (eds.) Gretchen Poiner and Sybil Jack. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2007.

MACQUEEN, Andy. Somewhat Perilous: the journeys of Singleton, Parr, Howe, Myles & Blaxland in the Northern Blue Mountains." Wentworth Falls, NSW: Privately Printed, 2004.

On Suspect Terrain: journals of exploration in the Blue Mountains 1795-1820. (ed.) Ross Brownescombe. Brighton East, Vic: Forever Wild Press, 2004.

PERRY, T.M. Australia's First Frontier: the spread of settlement in New South Wales, 1788-1829. Parkville, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1963

VALE, Michelle. Warby: My Excellent Guide. St. Ives, N.S.W. Michelle Vale,1994.

WEATHERBURN, A.K. George William Evans: explorer. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1966.

WEATHERBURN, A. K. Australia's Interior Unveiled: a biography of George William Evans (1780-1852), surveyor, explorer and artist. Ryde, N.S.W.: A.K. Weatherburn, 1987. [Important revision of the 1966 biography]

Journal Articles

ANDREWS, Alan E. J. "Mount Hunter and Beyond; with Hunter, Tench, Wilson, Barrallier, Caley, King, and Macquarie 1790 to 1815." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal. Vol. 76, Part 1, June 1990 pp.3-15.

MAYER, Wolf. "In Search of a 'Considerable River': retracing the paths of the early explorers to Lake George, the Limestone Plains and the Murrumbidgee." Canberra Historical Journal. New Series No. 45 March 2000 pp.15-24.

PROUDFOOT, Helen. "A Continent Without Maps: territorial exploration in the age of Macquarie - a new look at the journeys of John Oxley." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal. Vol. 79, Parts 1-2, June 1993 pp.20-32.

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