The Dig Tree

Dedication

Photograph of The Dig Tree

Map

One Terra Australis Incognita

Two Marvellous Melbourne

Three The Fertile Island Theory

Four An Affair of Cliquery

Five A Trifle Insane

Six The Honour of Victoria

Seven No Tea, No Fire

Eight Ruinous Work

Nine An Excess of Bravery

Ten The Dead Heart

Eleven A Sense of Perspective

Twelve Anticipation of Horrors

Thirteen Never More Severely Taxed

Fourteen Beneath the Veil

Fifteen The Awful Truth

Sixteen Dig

Seventeen This Extraordinary Continent

Eighteen From Inertia to Overkill

Nineteen The Continent Crossed

Twenty From Absolute Necessity

Twenty-One An Unmanly Action

Twenty-Two A Bloodless Triumph

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Select Bibliography

Text Classics

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