Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845

Ludwig Leichhardt

1813–1848

An adventurous Prussian naturalist and explorer, he became famous for crossing northern Australia and then vanished while attempting an even more ambitious journey. His expeditions helped shape European knowledge of the continent’s interior, and his disappearance turned him into one of Australia’s enduring historical mysteries.