The 1928 MacRobertson Round Australia Expedition: colonial adventuring in the twentieth century

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100566

Publication Details

Clarsen, G. W. (2015). The 1928 MacRobertson Round Australia Expedition: colonial adventuring in the twentieth century. In M. Thomas (Eds.), Expedition into Empire: Exploratory Journeys and the Making of the Modern World (pp. 194-213). United States: Taylor and Francis.

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ISBN: 9781138790681

Abstract

The nineteenth century marked the high point of European exploratory expeditions in Australia. But they enjoyed a dynamic afterlife in twentieth-century national culture. Motorised overland journeys emerged as a new form of settler expedition that drew on familiar colonial tropes of land being won through ardous feats of exploration and travel across 'unknown' contients.

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