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DROUGHT - The Red Marauder

By Michael McKernan

Drought in Australia - A fact of life

The story of drought is told through the eyes of people who have lived through droughts over the more than 200 years of European settlement. This is a story of their creativity, their endurance, and their suffering and how drought has become a significant part of the historians' picture of Australia'

How have Governments sought to manage drought?

The book will move chronologically through the drought years but will be alert to the dangers of repetition and a numbingly similar pattern. It will cover the whole of the continent. It will seek the unusual and the exemplary story. It will try to get the smell of the land and the sweat of the oppressed farmer and his family into the nostrils of the readers. It will be heavily illustrated.

Soft laminated cover 312 pages. Aprox 208mmx140mm. APN 9781741142341.  (1st Edition 2005). RRP $26.95