Oxford Reading Tree: Stages 15-16: Treetops True Stories: Whitemen, Explorers in a Strange Land Woven together from the account given in Ludwig Leichardt"s journal of his crossing, from the Darling downs near Sydney to Port Essington, near Darwin in 1844. This account is fictionalised, and told from the perspective of a young aboriginal boy and his grandfather who accompany Leichardt on part of the journey. Full description