An Ill-Fated Search for Gold in the Western Desert

In 1899 the Border Exploration Syndicate sent a party east into the desert towards the Rawlinson Range, acting on reports of gold. Led by Henry William Hill, the expedition was caught by severe drought and held in the interior for around nine months, losing half its camels and two of its members before the ordeal ended in 1900.

This Hesperian Press edition presents Hill's own diaries of the journey, unpublished for more than a century, together with later reports on the expedition. The material has been edited by Mark Chambers and Peter J. Bridge, giving a detailed first-hand record of one of the harshest episodes in Western Australian exploration.

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