On Hermit Hill: Benjamin Herschel Babbage and the Lake Torrens Myth
by Tucker, Rod
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- 1922454656
- ISBN 13
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About This Item
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2021. MINT - a NEW copy. Black & white illustrations and maps. xviii, 369 pages. Benjamin Herschel Babbage was a South Australian engineer, surveyor and explorer. In 1858, he stood on Hermit Hill, near Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre (South), and recognised that there was a gap in a mythical horseshoe-shaped Lake Torrens that the explorer Edward John Eyre had conceived sixteen years earlier. Babbage's discovery was a crucial step in opening northern South Australia to European settlement and paved the way for John McDouall Stuart's crossing of the continent. Babbage achieved much under arduous conditions, but the Adelaide newspapers accused him of slow progress, and the South Australian Government summarily dismissed him as expedition leader. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB317352
- Title
- On Hermit Hill: Benjamin Herschel Babbage and the Lake Torrens Myth
- Author
- Tucker, Rod
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1922454656
- ISBN 13
- 9781922454652
- Publisher
- Australian Scholarly Publishing
- Place of Publication
- North Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2021
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
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Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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