1: Discovering, Mourning, and Honoring Leichhardt between Australia and German-Speaking Europe, 1848–1858

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Colonial Entanglements
7. 1: Discovering, Mourning, and Honoring Leichhardt between Australia and German-Speaking Europe, 1848–1858 17
8. 2: Ferdinand Mueller, the Ladies Committee, and German-Australian Seekers of Leichhardt 46
9. 3: Taking Leichhardt Home to Germany with Georg Neumayer 73
10. 4: Uneasily Approaching the Centenary 93
11. Part II. Colonial Memories
12. 5: An Interwar Interregnum, or Finding Leichhardt as a “Friend of the Aborigine”? 111
13. 6: Nazi Leichhardt 133
14. 7: Leichhardt the Cold Warrior 164
15. 8: Leichhardt Explodes, with No End in Sight (including a concluding passage “The Ghost of a Chance”) 195
16. Notes 223
17. Works Cited 283
18. Index 329