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In His Own Words: Dr Hermann Beckler’s Writings about His Journeys between the Darling River and Bulloo, 1860–1 (2016)

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This essay introduces eight reports by Dr Hermann Beckler of the nineteenth-century Victorian Exploring Expedition (better known as the Burke & Wills Expedition) from the State Library of Victoria, the Argus newspaper and a German publication. Together, their detail reflects the complexity of the Expedition. Many are also hand-written manuscripts in nineteenth-century script that are difficult to decipher. In Beckler's own words, the reports range from descriptions of the landscape and his journeys, to the plants he observed and collected, and a meteorological report. The detailed medical reports about his return journey to Bulloo provide extensive insight into the grievous suffering of the men (four deaths) in the drought stricken summer of the semi-arid desert north of the Darling River. After he returned home to Bavaria, Beckler published a second medical report on the same subject, translated here by Thomas Darragh.

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Authors & Contributors
West-Sooby, John
Duyker, Edward
Rodney S. Tucker
Bastian, Josephine
Jill Hunting
Matthew Fishburn
Concepts
Scientific expeditions
Travel; exploration
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Biographies
Botany
Natural history
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Australia
France
Micronesia
Melanesia
United States
Portugal
Institutions
The Friends of Photography
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