AustLit

'By the 1830s Australia was growing. Settlements had been established at Albany in Western Australia and Adelaide in South Australia. Albany Had good grazing land, but very little livestock. The only way livestock could be transported from Adelaide to Albany was by ship. A group of South Australian graziers decided to find and overland stock route from Adelaide to Albany. In 1840, a young explorer names Edward John Eyre was chosen to lead the expedition. Eyre did not find a stock route, but he did become the first European to cross the harsh desert Nullarbor Plain. This is the story of the people, the ideas and the events relating to Eyre's expedition across the Nullarbor, and how it changed Australia forever.' (Publication summary)