A Journey To Cooper's Creek

Hermann Beckler, Stephen Jeffries, Stephen Jeffries , Stephen Jeffries

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German

The Miegunyah Press
31 August 1989

History; General & world history; Geographical discovery & exploration

The account of Hermann Beckler, German medical officer and botanical collector with the Burke and Wills expedition, translated and published for the first time.

First-hand accounts of the myth-laden Burke and Wills expedition are remarkably few, in contrast to the reams of subsequent commentary and conjecture. Wills's journal and statements by others in the party were published at the time, but little more. Hermann Beckler, botanical collector and doctor to the expedition, wrote the only other substantial account, in his native German. The manuscript remained with his family for nearly a century. It is now published for the first time. This highly readable account, with drawings and maps, offers insights into the causes of the expedition's failure-an ill-chosen leader and route, and inappropriate and excessive supplies. In increasingly desperate conditions Beckler collected and identified the native flora, and recorded vivid and positive descriptions of the landscape and the Aboriginal people. His acute observations indicate what might have been achieved had the expedition pursued its scientific brief.

By: Hermann Beckler
Introduction by: Stephen Jeffries
Translated by: Stephen Jeffries, Michael Kertesz
Volume editor: Stephen Jeffries
Imprint: The Miegunyah Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780522844849
ISBN 10: 0522844847
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 31 August 1989
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Stephen Jeffries has researched a number of German travellers and settlers in nineteenth-century Australia.