Item #024738 CLARKE OF THE KINDUR: Convict, bushranger, explorer. George Clarke, Dean Boyce.

CLARKE OF THE KINDUR: Convict, bushranger, explorer.

Pp. [xii]+100, 4 plates, text drawings, 3 full page maps, appendix, references, bibliography, index; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, backstrip faded; bookplate on upper pastedown; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition. *George Clarke, alias the Barber,lived for five years among Aborigines in New South Wales in the early 1800s. He claimed to have crossed the continent and discovered a great inland river, the Kindur. The report of this prompted Major Thomas Mitchell's expedition in 1831-32. Item #024738

Price: $40.00

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