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HARRIS, Walter Kilroy

[PROSPECTUS] Outback in Australia; or three Australian overlanders

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Being an account of the longest overlanding journey ever attempted in Australia with a single horse, and including chapters on various phases of outback life. Letchworth, U.K. : Garden City Press, 1913. Single sheet, folded into 4 pp octavo, three illustrations. Fine.

Scarce prospectus for this account of an eccentric English traveller’s experiences droving in outback Queensland and his trip from Newcastle to Adelaide and back, via Gippsland, the Western District of Victoria, Ninety Mile Desert, Murray River and outback New South Wales. Harris, only twenty-three years of age and the youngest member of the Royal Geographical Society, was accompanied by his brother and used only one horse for the entire trip. He records that his ‘tucker bill’ for the 500 mile journey from Melbourne to Adelaide was one shilling for horse feed and sixpence for two loaves of bread, while the 1100 mile journey from Adelaide to Newcastle cost one shilling and twopence for horse feed and nothing for the brothers, as they were treated to such fine bush hospitality the whole way.