| ISBN |
9781862548251 (hardback) |
| Author |
Sheldrick, Janis M. (author.) |
| Title |
Nature's line : George Goyder : surveyor, environmentalist, visionary / Janis Sheldrick. |
| Other title |
George Goyder : nature's line |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2013. |
| ©2013 |
| Description |
xiv, 457 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Subjects |
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 |
| Land settlement -- South Australia -- History |
| Land use -- South Australia -- History |
| Agriculture -- South Australia -- History |
| Northern Territory -- Discovery and exploration |
| Goyder's Line (S. Aust.) |
| South Australia -- History -- 1851-1891 |
| Call number |
994.232 SHE |
