His claims of finding an Australian El Dorado have been questioned, even ridiculed. His diary clues are cryptic. His reef has never been found but the legend of Lasseter's Reef persists to taunt the reason and entice the imagination. Is there a long lost reef still waiting for the stumbling foot of a latter day Lasseter to turn up gold? This story has been written from the related experiences of members of the expedition, and from the letters of Lasseter. The story of Lasseter's last adventures has been pieced together from the fragments of letters buried by him beneath the ashes of his camp-fires and found by Bob Buck when he was searching for the lost prospector; so this is the real life epic of the expedition into the dead heart of Australia to search for his legendary reef of gold, to find again that fabulous place at the edge of the desert where 'the yellow stuff was as thick as plums in pudding'.