Tracking & Mapping The Explorers The Lachlan & the Macquarie Rivers 1817 1818

Evans's Sketch of The Warrumbungle Mts

Introducing two volumes on the exploration of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers by John Oxley in 1817 & 1818

The books are studies that show where Oxley’s expedition routes and camp sites are located in relation to the developed agricultural areas, regional cities and towns of New South Wales.

TRACKING AND MAPPING THE EXPLORERS

VOLUME 1 THE LACHLAN RIVER 1817

OXLEY, EVANS and CUNNINGHAM

2003

VOLUME 2 THE MACQUARIE RIVER 1818

Oxley & Evans

By John Whitehead

2004

The whole of both Expeditions has been plotted onto current 1:250,000 GeoScience Topographic Maps with extra detail onto 1:50,000 Land & property Information Topographic Maps

Diaries, Journals, Field Books and Charts have been accessed, reproduced and enhanced to provide details of the location of campsites and the routes taken by the expedition. Comparisons are made with topographic descriptions of the modern day landscape and comments are added to the explorer’s descriptions of vegetation, wildlife and aboriginal culture.

Oxley’s entire 1820 Journal covering both expeditions in 1817 and 1818 is reproduced in this work in a manner that allows the reader to follow more precisely his route and camp site locations on the early Australian landscape. To complement the Journal, extracts from Cunningham’s diary have been inserted into the Volume 1 text to support the analysis. At the same time, Evans’ Field Books and Charts are used to show the similarities

The book is available from John Whitehead at PO Box 612 Coonabarabran NSW 2357

Phone (02) 68423090 email jwhitehe@tpg.com.au

or from The Book Connection, PO Box 583 Dubbo, NSW 2830

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Vol 1 362 pages ISBN 0-646-43038-6 Retail Price $44.00

Vol 2 360 pages ISBN 0-9757163-0-1 Retail Price $44.00

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