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Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2020

1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN 9781743054673 (e-book)

ISBN 9781743054666

Print version: Sheldrick, Janis M. Nature’s line : George Goyder : surveyor, environmentalist, visionary. Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2020 xiv, 455 pages ISBN 9781743054666

First published 2013

Reprinted 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index

George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries - who satirised him as the discoverer of the inland sea - in understanding the Australian climate. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of reliable rainfall, his repeated warnings about the threat of drought were scorned..

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