Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts: The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth

by Andrew Wright Hurley

After the renowned Prussian scientist and explorer Ludwig Leichhardt left the Australian frontier in 1848 on an expedition to cross the continent, he disappeared without a trace. Andrew Hurley's book complicates that view by undertaking an afterlife biography of "the Humboldt of Australia." Although Leichhardt's remains were never located, he has been sought and textually "found" many times over, particularly in Australia and Germany. He remains...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140131
• ISBN13: 9781640140134
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"