Exploration & explorers of Australia (Land)

The centenary of the funeral of Burke and Wills affords an occasion to look back upon a poem Home wrote to celebrate their story. It…

Sellick discusses three poems that respond to the ill-fated Burke & Wills expedition of 1860: Henry Kendall's The Fate of the Explorers, Burke and Wills…

Francis Webb's interest in Australian explorers has been a continuing one and he has found material tor his major poetic sequences in their characters and…

Healy examines a spate of novels in the 1890s that were inspired by the association of Australia with the mythical lost continent of Lemuria. Novels…

Explores Francis Webb's mythmaking through the history and figures of Australian exploration, arguing that 'Webb's search was ultimately neither for gods nor heroes, but for…

Discusses Carter’s and other recent critical approaches to exploration narratives.

Considers Webb's adaptation of Eyre's 'realization of his complete isolation' during his ill-fated exploratory journey of 1841, with particular emphasis on the poem's engagement with…

The journals of explorers are an important element in the cultural representation of the geography of Australia and of the nature of its inhabitants. But…

Using three Australian novels of exploration as examples, I should like to suggest that the romance of exploration is invariably the romance of love but…