Patrick White’s Voss is loosely based upon the last expedition of Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt in 1848 when he attempted to traverse the Australian continent from east to west. Before Voss and his group set out from Jildra Station into the heart of the continent, Voss writes Laura a letter, asking for her hand in marriage.
As the days pass following Voss’s departure, each thinks of the other. She has found him to be proud and arrogant, yet at the same time the two make a connection without consciously realising it. Laura has only spent a small amount of time in Voss’s presence prior to his departure, and not all of that has been a positive experience. Of note is Laura Trevelyan, a young woman adopted into the Bonner’s household who possesses an intellect superior to her peers. Left behind in Potts Point, Sydney, is Mr Bonner, their primary investor, along with his household. Voss leads six other Europeans, along with two Aborigines and a menagerie of farm animals, pack animals and supplies. It offers the potential for the country to be opened for further settlement and new economic opportunities. It is the 1840s and exploration of the continent is important to the European civilisation clinging to the eastern seaboard. Johann Ulrich Voss, a German immigrant, leads an expedition into the interior of Australia.
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