[BURKE & WILLS] Bush flowers from Australia. By a daughter of the Soil.

A$350 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

London : James Nisbet, 1867. First edition. Small quarto, original green cloth with gilt title and decoration (front and rear boards marked, rebacked, endpapers replaced), nineteenth century owner s inscription, hand-coloured frontispiece, pp viii, 152 (occasional foxing and few ink marks). A collection of poems and short essays by Susan Nugent Wood (1836-1880), who lived much of her adult life in Sandhurst (Bendigo) on the Victorian goldfields and later on the Otago goldfields in New Zealand. In the essay The last page of a tale that is told , the author eulogises the exploits of Burke and Wills, noting her close friendship with the gallant leader of the party, Robert O Hara Burke . The poem The Return of the wanderers commemorates the infamous wreck of the Admella on the treacherous limestone coast near the South Australian border with Victoria in 1859.

• Binding: Hardcover

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