Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860

They crossed Australia and died on the way home, in country Aboriginal people had lived in comfortably for millennia. Jackson tells the 1860 expedition as the colony first heard it: the camels, the ruinous decisions, the dash for the north coast, the depot party that pulled out the same day they got back, and the relief that arrived too late. The disaster that became Australia's most famous story.