"Monarch of All I Survived, and Lord of the Fowl and the Brute" or Man of Science: The Dilemma of the Explorer in Nineteenth-Century Australia
Keywords:
Australian history, nineteenth-century Australia, explorers, explorer's writing, Australian landscape, sight, seeingAbstract
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