author
T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell
1792–1855
A soldier turned surveyor, he became one of the best-known explorers of colonial Australia, mapping huge stretches of New South Wales and beyond. His journeys and published journals helped shape how nineteenth-century readers imagined the Australian interior.
3 Audiobooks
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales
by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales
by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848)
by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell
About the author
Born in Scotland in 1792, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell served in the British Army during the Peninsular War before moving to New South Wales in 1827. He rose to become Surveyor General of New South Wales and built a strong reputation for precise surveying, mapmaking, and ambitious field expeditions.
Mitchell is best remembered for a series of major journeys into south-eastern Australia in the 1830s and 1840s. These expeditions added greatly to European geographical knowledge of the region, and his accounts of the country he travelled through were later published in widely read journals. He was often called "Major Mitchell," a name that stayed closely linked with his exploring career.
He died in Sydney in 1855. Today he is remembered as an important, if complex, figure in Australian colonial history: an energetic explorer and surveyor whose work had a lasting impact on mapping, settlement, and the written record of inland Australia.