THE DIG TREE - TEXT CLASSICS John Gatford and intervention

and intervention

particularly the North

a mythology about our colonial soldiers had already been crafted

The third edition has been revised and updated throughout

developed from its roots in the English version over 50 years ago

THE DIG TREE - TEXT CLASSICS John Gatford and interventionIntroduced by Geoffrey Blainey Wills knew that he was fading fastest. On 26 June, he decided the only honourable thing to do was to sacrifice himself to save his companions. 'Without some change,' he wrote, 'I see little chance for any of us.' In 1860, an eccentric Irish policeman and a shy English scientist led a cavalcade of men and camels out of Melbourne to cross the continent south to north. Less than a year later seven men were dead.