Following reports of gold in the Rawlinson Range an expedition was organised by the Border Exploration Syndicate. Desert, Drought, and Death is the story of that expedition as written by the leader, Henry W. Hill.

Nine months after leaving the north-east goldfields town of Menzies in Western Australia in 1899 with a party of five seasoned adventurers, Hill struggled into Oodnadatta in the centre of South Australia, with three of those men and with less than half the camels. What really happened?

Now the annals of this disastrous expedition are brought to light, to intrigue the reader and enthral the student of Centralian life for the first time in over a century.

Desert, Drought, and Death contains 26 appendices, including biographical notes on the expedition members, agreements and reports by members of the expedition, documents by Henry Hill on prospecting, documents on the death of Shannawaz, the Afghan camel driver including the names in facsimile of the Afghan petitioners, and indexes to the fauna and flora mentioned in the report.

The Volume contains two maps – the confidential leader's map, and that submitted to the Western Australian Department of Mines.


ISBN 978-0-85905-383-9
Hardcover (case bound), Dust Jacket, 158pp, illustrated, 465 grams
$70.00 plus postage

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