Warren Brown

A narrative account of the life and times of one of Australia's most extraordinary adventurers—a man who crossed Australia more than 70 times in the early part of the 20th century—by bicycle and car. In 1927, he achieved the greatest motoring feat of the times, driving a car from London to Melbourne. This story follows his exploits across scorching Arabic...

When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930, it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier, he had staggered out of the desert, almost dead, his pockets bulging with gold, claiming to have found a 15-kilometre gold reef. The mystery deepened when he and a surveyor returned to the isolated and mysterious ranges where the reef...