Physical description

Softcover. 104 pages including illustrations and maps. Cover text in black. Text boxes in light orange. Marked up enlarged part copy of map published in 'Journey of Discovery to Port Phillip, New South Wales, in 1824-1825. Compiled and edited by William Bland. Published in 1837.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Typed transcript of article in Trove from the Port Phillip gazette, Saturday 5 October 1839 page 2 inserted as an addendum on page 104 to back up the author's assertion "that the Maribyrnong River was the river named by Hume and Hovell as the Arndell River".

Summary

This book challenges the widely held belief that the Hume and Hovell expedition of 1824 - 1825 terminated at Corio Bay, Port Phillip, and argues it in fact terminated at the Werribee River.