Cooper's Creek (book) explained

Cooper's Creek
Author:	Alan Moorehead
Country:	Australia
Language:	English
Genre:	biography
Publisher:	Hamish Hamilton
Pub Date:	1963

Cooper's Creek is a 1963 Australian non fiction book by Alan Moorehead about the Burke and Wills Expedition. It was one of Moorehead's best known books.^{[1] [2]}

Film rights to the book were optioned. A film was not made but the book was adapted into a 1978 musical documentary for ABC radio called Endless Flight.

Reception

The New York Times called it a "superb book... although the setting was provincial, and indeed at times parochial, the story is seen in its universal significance."^[3]

The Age said the book "had been done well".^[4]

Notes and References

1. News: An 'event' by Moorehead . . 44 . 12,694 . Australian Capital Territory, Australia . 7 August 1970 . 14 April 2024 . 11 . National Library of Australia.
2. News: Wartime work basis for authorship . . 58 . 17,534 . Australian Capital Territory, Australia . 1 October 1983 . 14 April 2024 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
3. News: To the Dead Heart of Australia Came a Policeman Born to Tragedy; COOPER'S CREEK. By Alan Moorehead. Illustrated. 222 pp. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row. $5.95.. 16 February 1964. New York Times.
4. News: Geoffrey. Hutton. The Age. 9 November 1963. 21. Another look at the tragedy of Burke and Wills.