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Cooper's Creek is a 1963 Australian non fiction book by Alan Moorehead about the Burke and Wills Expedition. It was one of Moorehead's best known books.

Film rights to the book were optioned. A film was not made but the book was adapted into a 1978 musical documentary for ABC radio called Endless Flight.

Reception

The New York Times called it a "superb book... although the setting was provincial, and indeed at times parochial, the story is seen in its universal significance."

The Age said the book "had been done well".

References

1. "An 'event' by Moorehead". The Canberra Times. Vol. 44, no. 12, 694. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 August 1970. p. 11. Retrieved 14 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "Wartime work basis for authorship". The Canberra Times. Vol. 58, no. 17, 534. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 1 October 1983. p. 2. Retrieved 14 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "Wild Life and Civilised People The Moorehead method of research", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 24 July 1965, nla.obj-698926543, retrieved 14 April 2024 – via Trove
4. Australian Broadcasting Commission., "Radio program services", Annual Report of the Australian Broadcasting Commission., Parliamentary paper (Australia. Parliament) (1977/1978, PP no. 321 of 1978), Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1114797906, retrieved 14 April 2024 – via Trove
5. "To the Dead Heart of Australia Came a Policeman Born to Tragedy; COOPER'S CREEK. By Alan Moorehead. Illustrated. 222 pp. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row. $5.95". New York Times. 16 February 1964.
6. Hutton, Geoffrey (9 November 1963). "Another look at the tragedy of Burke and Wills". The Age. p. 21.

• Cultural depictions of Burke and Wills
• 1963 non-fiction books
• Australian non-fiction books