Eyre: The Forgotten Explorer

Edward John Eyre was one of the most intrepid explorers to tackle the unforgiving Australian outback – and one of the youngest. Lake Eyre, the Eyre Highway between Adelaide and Perth, and many other landmarks are named after him, yet so little is known of his time here.

Author Ivan Rudolph shows how this idealistic young Englishman – still in his teens when he arrived in New South Wales in 1833 – transformed himself into a rugged frontiersman, one of the first to overland cattle to Melbourne and Adelaide. But it’s Eyre’s attempt on the Nullarbor that was the peak of his Australian career.

pp. 416 illusts #0820 ISBN 10: 0732299314ISBN 13: 9780732299316