Ernest Favenc

Ernest Favenc (21 October 1845[1] – 14 November 1908) was an explorer of Australia, a journalist, author of verse, novels and short stories, and an historian.

[1] Favenc arrived in New South Wales in 1864,[1] and, after being in the colony for about a year, in a commercial position, he afterwards worked in the pastoral industry in the frontier squatting districts of Queensland.

[3] In the early 1880s he also undertook expeditions in the country to the south of the Gulf of Carpentaria and to the headwaters of the Murchison, Gascoyne and Ashburton rivers of Western Australia.

The Last of Six: Tales of the Austral Tropics appeared in 1893, followed by The Secret of the Australian Desert (a short novel) in 1895, Marooned on Australia and The Moccasins of Silence, both in 1896.

On the original launch of this book in 1888 the Sydney, Australia Daily Telegraph reported: The History of Australian Exploration is an important one and however diverse may have been the aims, ideas and successes of those by whom the work was done,...Ernest Favenc's rather formidable volume...gathers together all those scattered memorials merging it into a unity of a great labour.