The Burke and Wills expedition as it set off from Royal Park Melbourne in August 1860 from Illustrated Australian News 4 May 1881.
Image: State Library of Victoria
Resources and Links
Bibliographies
Books
Hermann Beckler A Journey To Cooper’s Creek translated by Stephen Jefferies Carlton Vic Melbourne University Press 1993
Tim Bonyhady Burke & Wills: From Melbourne to Myth Balmain NSW David Ell Press 1991
Michael Cathcart Starvation in a Land of Plenty: Wills’ Diary of the Fateful Burke and Wills Expedition Canberra National Library of Australia 2013
Ian Clark and Fred Cahir (editors) The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills CSIRO Publishing 2016
Frank Clune Dig Sydney Angus & Robertson 1937
Peter FitzSimons Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia’s Most Famous Explorer Hachette UK 2017
Melanie Guile and Tom Lackey Burke and Wills’ expedition to cross Australia Macmillan Library Victoria 2011
EB Joyce and DA McCann (editors) Burke and Wills: The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition CSIRO Publishing 2011
Alan Moorehead Cooper’s Creek New York Harper & Row 1963
Sarah Murgatroyd The Dig Tree New York Broadway Books 2002
Dave Phoenix Following Burke and Wills Across Australia: A Touring Guide CSIRO Publishing 2015
Dave Phoenix Melbourne to the Gulf : A Brief History of the Burke & Wills Expedition Burke and Wills Web 2006
Karen Tayleur and Robyn Annear Burke and Wills: expedition off the map Black Dog Victoria 2010
Marjorie Tipping (editor) Ludwig Becker Carlton Vic Melbourne University Press 1979
John White Burke and Wills: the stockade and the tree Victoria University of Technology Library in association with Footprint Press Footscray Vic 1992
Conference Papers
Explorer Journals and Reports
George Bourne Bourne’s Journal of Landsborough‘s Expedition 1862
John Davis Tracks of McKinlay and party across Australia 1863
Andrew Jackson Robert O’Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition 1863
William Landsborough Journal of Landsborough‘s Expedition from Carpentaria 1862
John McKinlay McKinlay‘s Journal of Explorations into the Interior of Australia 1862
Royal Society of Victoria Progress Reports and Final Report of the Exploration Committee 1863
Victoria Parliament Commission of Enquiry into the deaths of Burke & Wills 1862
William John Wills A Successful Exploration through the interior of Australia 1862
Films
Graeme Clifford (director) Burke and Wills Colombia Pictures 1985 with Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers and Greta Scacchi