No explorer anywhere in the world has covered more terrible country than Earnest Giles in his several journeys across the enormous, searing distances of Central and Western Australia.
But as well as being astonishingly brave and a consummate bushman, Giles was a delightfully poetic and humorous character. Quoting Byron for breakfast, he went on to find poetry in the very stones of this strange continent, as well he might, since he was the first white man to see the greatest rocks in the world, Ayers Rock and Mount Olga. (Author).