Letters of F.W. Ludwig Leichhardt

Ludwig Leichhardt is chiefly known as the most important of the scientific explorers of Australia. His lively but detailed letters provide a narrative of his life from his student days in the mid-1830s until 1848 when he disappeared in the Australian interior. Leichhardt''s main interest was natural philosophy, particularly biology, geology and geography, but as a scholar of nature in the widest s...