Into the Unknown

This new book describes the life of Mary and William Howitt’s eldest surviving son, Alfred, who travelled to Australia with his brother, Charlton, and their father William in 1851. They travelled to Australia to join the gold rush where Alfred remained while Charlton returned to England with his father. Alfred retrieved the bodies of Burke and Wills, following the failed expedition into the red centre from the north coast of Australia. Alfred was a self-taught geologist, a botanist, a very ...