Stories of the men who mapped Australia - the heroes and hooligans, sailors and surveyors, buccaneers and bushmen.
Did you know . . . that as a boy Captain Cook ran away from home? That Ludwig Leichhardt ate stewed cockatoo for Christmas dinner in 1844? That Burke and Wills took rum for their camels?
Find out . . . about Aboriginal songlines - maps as poetry. About how sailors mapped the Great South Land, bit by bit, about who solved the riddle of the rivers and who won the race to cross the continent, risking death in the desert.
These are the people behind the names on the maps - men of amazing courage and endurance.
