Drought Country : The Dry Times That Have Shaped Australia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godfree, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Droughts.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

An exploration of Australia's harsh climate, weaving historical accounts with scientific theory.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Foreword

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Cultural sensitivity warning

Introduction: a land fertile for drought

Part 1: Big feller dry

Chapter 1: Legends

Chapter 2: Calamity on the Coquun

Chapter 3: Vanishing waters

Part 2: An ingratious country

Chapter 4: Unsettling times

Chapter 5: The summer of discontent

Colour plates

Chapter 6: An uncommon and tedious drought

Chapter 7: Bass and the South Coast drought

Part 3: A sky untroubled by clouds

Chapter 8: The poverty of confinement

Chapter 9: The stillness of death

Chapter 10: Depressed times

Chapter 11: Transitions

Part 4: Hell's half century

Chapter 12: The Titan's grip

Chapter 13: The living drought

Chapter 14: Niobe's ruin

Chapter 15: Crucified

Chapter 16: The desert of dry bones

Part 5: Life in the Anthropocene

Chapter 17: River of tears

Chapter 18: The great divide

Chapter 19: What lies beneath

Chapter 20: Day zero

Chapter 21: Hung out to dry

Obscured horizons

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781486314058

1486314058

OCLC:

1499719594