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Nature's line : George Goyder : surveyor, environmentalist, visionary / Janis Sheldrick.
Publication details: Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2013.Description: xiv, 457 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781862548251 (hardback)
- George Goyder : nature's line
- Goyder, G. W. (George Woodroffe), 1826-1898
- Goyder, G. W. (George Woodroffe), 1826-1898
- Northern Territory Survey Expedition (1868-1870)
- Environmentalists -- South Australia -- Biography
- Surveyors -- South Australia -- Biography
- Rain and rainfall -- South Australia
- Architecture and climate -- South Australia
- Northern Territory -- Discovery and exploration
- Goyder's Line (S. Aust.)
- Australian
- Biography & autobiography
- Management of land & natural resources
- Ecology & environmental science
- 994.232 23
Contents:
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.
Part One: In search of the rainfall -- Part Two: The dark divide -- Part Three: Universal genius and Clerk of the Weather -- Part Four: Enduring marks.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 994.232 SHE | Available | 057564 |
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One: In search of the rainfall -- Part Two: The dark divide -- Part Three: Universal genius and Clerk of the Weather -- Part Four: Enduring marks.
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.
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
