John McDouall Stuart (1815-66) was a pioneering explorer of Australia. The treks he made from 1858 to 1862 are the focus of this account, published in 1864 and compiled from Stuart's notes by William Hardman (1828-90). It includes Stuart's crossing of the continent in 1862.

An 1864 account of six expeditions into the Australian outback by one of the leading explorers of the time.