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Nature's line : George Goyder : surveyor, environmentalist, visionary / Janis Sheldrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheldrick, Janis M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surveyors--Australia--South Australia.
- Surveyors.
- Architecture and climate--Australia--South Australia.
- Architecture and climate.
- Environmentalists--Australia--South Australia.
- Environmentalists.
- Rain and rainfall--Australia--South Australia.
- Rain and rainfall.
- Goyder, G. W. (George Woodroffe), 1826-1898.
- Goyder, G. W.
- Goyder's Line (S.A.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 455 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- First published 2013.
- Reprinted 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-74305-467-X
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