The Long Enlightenment: Australian science from its beginning to the mid-20th century

by Robert Clancy

Halstead Press, Sydney/Canberra, 2021, in partnership with the Royal Societies of Australia.

ISBN 978-1-925043-53-2

hb, 182pp., photos, maps.

A$50

Hume & Hovell: expedition termination

By Lance Pritchard

Midway Print solutions, sunshine West (Vic), 2020.

ISBN 978-0-646-81681-4

Pb, 104pp., photos, maps.

[a privately-produced reassessment of the endpoint of the 1824-25 expedition]

If interested in reviewing either book for us, please send me your preferred postal address off-list.

Brendan Whyte

Editor, The Globe