This is the story of the strange adventure that took place in the remote interior of the Australian continent a hundred years ago . . . a story of men struggling against nature, human folly, and human frailty in an improbable landscape of immense horizons, fearful deserts, and silent bush, peopled sparsely by the sometimes helpful, sometimes hostile aborigines.

(Key Words: Expeditions, Australia, Australian Outback, Melbourne, Alan Moorehead, William Wright, Menindie, John King, Aborigines, Robert O'Hara Burke, Adventure, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cooper's Creek).