Description: A fascinating cultural studies account of the "afterlife" of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts of the past.
Review Quotes: [Hurley's book is] fresh, compelling, and often surprising in its insights. . . . [This] is an ambitious book, covering almost two centuries of Australian, German, and transnational history. . . . [It] will be of value to many students and scholars of history, literature, and culture, including those interested in cultures of commemoration, imperial and colonial history, Indigenous-settler relations, migration, social history, transnational history, and women's history. HISTORICAL RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE [Hilary Howes] The Australian Germanist Andrew Hurley presents [with this book] the first history of the reception - up to the present day - of the German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, who in 1844/45 became the first European to cross the Australian continent from East to West, and who in 1848, on his third attempt to travel from today's Brisbane to Swan River (Perth), disappeared.--Helmut Peitsch "ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR RELIGION UND GEISTESGESCHICHTE"