Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0709109261
9780709109266
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261).
Also issued online.
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| Summary: | In this biography of the man whom Australian regard with particularly deep respect and admiration, this book traces Sturt's early life from its early influences in Dorset, where the Sturts were an old landowning family. From his severely reduced financial inheritance we follow his military career, which sent him to Australia, and his dedication to solving the mysteries of the outback. His great journey up the Murray in a small whaleboat in terrible conditions caused the blindness which was to afflict him in varying degrees for the rest of his life. We see here how he constantly struggled with bureaucratic indifference and lack of recognition by the British Government until it was too late ; and we are given some insight into the man whose special qualities of humanity and forbearance brought him the less official but more substantial reward of the gratitude of countless Europeans and aborigines.
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| Other form: | Online version: Langley, Michael, 1933- Sturt of the Murray. London, Hale, 1969
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