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Nature's Line : George Goyder, surveyor, environmentalist, visionary.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (488 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781743054673
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nature's LineDDC classification:
  • 994.23199999999997
LOC classification:
  • GE56.G69 .S545 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Nature's Line -- About the author -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents -- Timeline -- Acknowledgements -- Preface - Never to be forgotten -- Part one: In search of the rainfall -- Chapter one - Receiving the life of heaven -- Chapter two - The climate of paradise -- Chapter three - As far as the eye could reach -- Chapter four - Systematic observation -- Chapter five - Taking charge -- Chapter six - Bird's-eye view -- Chapter seven - Magnum opus: the people's grass -- Chapter eight - In search of the rainfall -- Part two: The dark divide -- Chapter nine - Colonial morality: 1861-63 -- Chapter ten - Transition: 1866-68 -- Chapter eleven - Larrakia country: the founding of Darwin -- Chapter twelve - Going home -- Part three: Universal genius and Clerk of the Weather -- Chapter thirteen - Nature's Line -- Chapter fourteen - Following the plough -- Chapter fifteen - Fresh water and peculiar country -- Chapter sixteen - Tree theories -- Chapter seventeen - The universal genius -- Part four: Enduring marks -- Chapter eighteen - A house in the hills -- Chapter nineteen - Steward of all the Crown Lands -- Chapter twenty - Final years -- Chapter twenty-one - A gentleman of the Civil Service -- Chapter twenty-two - Remembering -- Notes and abbreviations -- Source list of South Australian parliamentary papers -- Notes -- List of illustrations -- Index -- Wakefield Press -- Back cover.
Summary: 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. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of reliable rainfall, his warnings about the threat of drought were scorned.
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Nature's Line -- About the author -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents -- Timeline -- Acknowledgements -- Preface - Never to be forgotten -- Part one: In search of the rainfall -- Chapter one - Receiving the life of heaven -- Chapter two - The climate of paradise -- Chapter three - As far as the eye could reach -- Chapter four - Systematic observation -- Chapter five - Taking charge -- Chapter six - Bird's-eye view -- Chapter seven - Magnum opus: the people's grass -- Chapter eight - In search of the rainfall -- Part two: The dark divide -- Chapter nine - Colonial morality: 1861-63 -- Chapter ten - Transition: 1866-68 -- Chapter eleven - Larrakia country: the founding of Darwin -- Chapter twelve - Going home -- Part three: Universal genius and Clerk of the Weather -- Chapter thirteen - Nature's Line -- Chapter fourteen - Following the plough -- Chapter fifteen - Fresh water and peculiar country -- Chapter sixteen - Tree theories -- Chapter seventeen - The universal genius -- Part four: Enduring marks -- Chapter eighteen - A house in the hills -- Chapter nineteen - Steward of all the Crown Lands -- Chapter twenty - Final years -- Chapter twenty-one - A gentleman of the Civil Service -- Chapter twenty-two - Remembering -- Notes and abbreviations -- Source list of South Australian parliamentary papers -- Notes -- List of illustrations -- Index -- Wakefield Press -- Back cover.

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. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of reliable rainfall, his warnings about the threat of drought were scorned.

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