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050		4	_aGE56.G69 _b.S545 2020
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100	1		_aSheldrick, Janis.
245	1	0	_aNature's Line : _bGeorge Goyder, surveyor, environmentalist, visionary.
250			_a2nd ed.
264		1	_aAdelaide : _bWakefield Press, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016.
300			_a1 online resource (488 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aNature'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.
520			_aGoyder 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aGoyder, G. W.-(George Woodroffe),-1826-1898.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aSheldrick, Janis _tNature's Line _dAdelaide : Wakefield Press,c2016 _z9781743054666
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6244644 _zClick to View
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