David S. Boyer

Jroreword\ CROSS THE VALLEY OF KiDRON Spread the massive walls and huddled houses, /\ the towers and domes of Jerusalem. As I stood on the Mount of Olives, gazing upon this Holy City of three great faiths, I thought of its momentous past. Here, tradition says, Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son...

T ^HERE IS NOTHING quite like it in the history of exploration, this story of the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860. What began as a comic-opera cavalcade, hoping to be the first to cross Australia, became an epic of endurance and ended in haunting tragedy. Some see in it a parable of the...