Strange New World. The Adventures of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichhardt.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1941. 8vo. Orig. cloth (spine faded). (xxii 382pp.). With frontisp. 24 full-page plates and endpaper maps. The rare 1st ed. NOTE: John Gilbert (c.1810-1845) was an English naturalist and explorer who was killed by Aborigines near the Gulf of Carpentaria while with the expedition of the German explorer Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-c.1848). Three years later Leichhardt would disappear on another expedition.