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  "blurb": "The journals and letters of William John Wills of the Burke and Wills expedition, which reached the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1861 and ended in starvation at Cooper Creek.",
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      "Colonial-era journal. It describes Aboriginal people, Country and culture from an outsider's point of view, in language and with attitudes that are offensive today, and it records violent encounters and the dispossession that followed. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that it names and describes people who have died."
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