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The book contains a number of serious factual errors, probably as a result of both extremely sloppy journalism and poor editing. For example:
The map on p31 shows Wilga Mia about 1000km north of its true location (about 75 km north west of Cue), it is in the Weld not Campell Range and the local Aboriginal people are Watjarri not Walpiri.
On p59 Warnun (not Warmum) is located 500km west of the Darwin-Alice Road, hardly "just to the west"
P40 Calgoorlie is spelt with a"K", Kalgoorlie - This a major city in West Australia. Any map of the world/globe printed after the 1890's would show this.
p105 'vitriol' is sulphuric acid. not iron sulphate which is 'green vitriol'
p113 Sadly, South Australia had no 'goldfields', unlike every other state and territory of Australia (with of course the ecxception of the Australian Capital Territory)
At this stage (ie p113) I gave up - how many other errors would there be that I do not know of?
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jimlaffer, July 27, 2006
The book contains a number of serious factual errors, probably as a result of both extremely sloppy journalism and poor editing. For example:The map on p31 shows Wilga Mia about 1000km north of its true location (about 75 km north west of Cue), it is in the Weld not Campell Range and the local Aboriginal people are Watjarri not Walpiri.
On p59 Warnun (not Warmum) is located 500km west of the Darwin-Alice Road, hardly "just to the west"
P40 Calgoorlie is spelt with a"K", Kalgoorlie - This a major city in West Australia. Any map of the world/globe printed after the 1890's would show this.
p105 'vitriol' is sulphuric acid. not iron sulphate which is 'green vitriol'
p113 Sadly, South Australia had no 'goldfields', unlike every other state and territory of Australia (with of course the ecxception of the Australian Capital Territory)
At this stage (ie p113) I gave up - how many other errors would there be that I do not know of?
(6 of 23 readers found this comment helpful)