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Undiscovered Australia, being an account of an expedition to tropical Australia to collect specimens of the rarer native fauna for the British Museum, 1923-1925, by G H Wilkins ; introduction, Craig Williams, Colin Harris ; biographical note, Valerie Sitters

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Undiscovered Australia

by G H Wilkins ; introduction, Craig Williams, Colin Harris ; biographical note, Valerie Sitters

being an account of an expedition to tropical Australia to collect specimens of the rarer native fauna for the British Museum, 1923-1925

Explorer, geographer, cinematographer, war hero, naturalist and climatologist, Sir Hubert Wilkins was many things to many people. Born in 1888 at Mount Bryan in South Australia, where he learnt to live close to the land, he spent most of his adult life overseas, returning only in the 1920s when the British Museum asked him to lead an expedition into the Australian outback to collect specimens of endangered species. Typically he exceeded his instructions and continued on his own to observe the Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory for a further six months. This period produced some of the most interesting sections of the book, along with a significant set of photographs. This fascinating book records one of the last of the 'discovery era' expeditions led by one of the last great adventurers of the twentieth century. Often critical of the complacent settlers and their disregard for the land, he provides a vital account of the country and its inhabitants in the 1920s

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