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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Ambivalent Eulogy: Catherine Martin's 'The Explorers'
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The author argues that 'The Explorers' differs from other literary responses to the tragedy of the Burke and Wills expedition, in focussing on Wills rather than Burke as hero, in its trenchant moral criticism of British society, and in its ambivalent treatment of the terrain the explorers crossed.

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 41 no. 2 Winter 1996 Z632728 1996 periodical issue 1996 pg. 29-47
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