A Sunburnt Country

Author : Anika Molesworth
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760988173

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Our Sunburnt Country by Anika Molesworth Pdf

Anika Molesworth fell in love with her family's farm, a sheep station near Broken Hill, at an early age. She formed a bond with the land as though it were a member of her family. When the Millennium Drought hit, though, bringing with it heatwaves and duststorms, the future she'd always imagined for herself began to seem impossible. As she learned more about the causes of - and the solutions to - the extreme weather that was killing her land and her livelihood, Anika became fired up and determined to speak out. Talking to farmers and food producers all around the world, she soon realised that there was a way forward that could be both practical and sustainable - if only we can build up the courage to take it. Beautifully written and full of hope, Our Sunburnt Country shows that there is a way to protect our land, our food and our future, and it is within our grasp. Praise for Our Sunburnt Country: 'In Australia our climate debate can be depressing. In the hands of Anika Molesworth it is uplifting and full of hope.' - Craig Reucassel 'Anika Molesworth invites us to imagine a better future. Read this book and be inspired.' - Michael E. Mann 'In a hope-filled, personal tale framed by her family farm in a sun-baked landscape, Anika Molesworth weaves philosophy, science and a poet's eye into a heartwarming tale of how to help heal the planet.' - Matthew Evans 'This is an important, accessible and evocative book written by a farmer and scientist in that most vital of spaces: the future of our Earth. This book can be part of the solution.' - Charles Massy 'A personal journey spurred by climate change in the west of NSW, learning what can be done and why it is worth doing.' - Ross Garnaut

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Australia
ISBN : 038540817X

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Down Under, Or, In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Pdf

Author : Joelle Gergis
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525285033

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Sunburnt Country by Joelle Gergis Pdf

What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles? Sunburnt Country pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It uncovers a continent long vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It gives an unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been with us for millions of years, and what climate change looks like in our own backyard. Sunburnt Country highlights the impact of a warming planet on Australian lifestyles and ecosystems and the power we all have to shape future life on Earth.

Author : Margaret Cook,Lionel Frost,Andrea Gaynor,Jenny Gregory,Ruth A. Morgan,Martin Shanahan,Peter Spearritt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108831581

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Cities in a Sunburnt Country by Margaret Cook,Lionel Frost,Andrea Gaynor,Jenny Gregory,Ruth A. Morgan,Martin Shanahan,Peter Spearritt Pdf

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

Author : Jackie French
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781743099841

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To Love a Sunburnt Country by Jackie French Pdf

In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancy's family has sent her to Malaya to bring home her sister-in-law Moira and baby nephew Gavin. Yet despite the threat of Japanese invasion, Moira resists, wanting to stay near her husband Ben. But not even Nancy of the Overflow can stop the fall of Singapore and the capture of so many Australian troops. When their ship is bombed, Nancy, Moira and Gavin are reported missing. Back home at Gibbers Creek, Michael refuses to believe the girl he loves has died. As Darwin, Broome and even Sydney are bombed, Australians must fight to save their country. But as Michael and the families of Gibbers Creek discover, there are many ways to love your country, and many ways to fight for it. From one of Australia's most-admired storytellers comes a gripping and unforgettable novel based on true events and little-known people. This is a story about ultimate survival and the deepest kinds of love. PRAISE 'A book about a love of country that is heartwarming and heartbreaking, and hard to put down.' -- Adelaide Advertiser, 4 stars

Author : Dorothea Mackellar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : 0947163476

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I Love a Sunburnt Country by Dorothea Mackellar Pdf

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781409095637

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Down Under by Bill Bryson Pdf

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life – a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring such dangers – and yet curiously obsessed by them – Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn’t get much better than this...

Author : Bill Beavan,Dorothea Mackellar
Publisher : Adelaide : Rigby
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000004961048

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A Sunburnt Country by Bill Beavan,Dorothea Mackellar Pdf

Author : Brian Raymond Coffey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Australia
ISBN : 186368364X

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Sunburnt Country by Brian Raymond Coffey Pdf

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Author : Dorothea Mackellar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : OCLC:944118520

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My Country by Dorothea Mackellar Pdf

A broadside consisting of the words of Dorothea Mackellar's poem written in a calligraphic hand above a redish-toned desert scene showing two lizards and clumps of grass on a rocky outcrop. The image is digitally printed but has the title, punctuation amd the eyes of the lizards embellished with hand applied gold leaf.

Author : Fiona Palmer (Romance fiction writer)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1925995747

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The Sunburnt Country by Fiona Palmer (Romance fiction writer) Pdf

Jonelle Baxter is a young woman in a man's world - a tough, hardworking motor mechanic from an idyllic country family. But lately things in her perfect life have been changing, and her workshop isn't the only local business that's struggling. Daniel Tyler is new in town, posted from the city to manage the community bank. As he tries to resin in the spiralling debts of Bundara, he uncovers all sorts of personal dramas and challenges. The last thing Jonny and Dan need is an unwanted attraction to each other. She has enough problems just keeping her livelihood going and he's fighting pressures that stretch all the way to Perth. It's going to take more than a good drop of rain to break the drought and bring change in love and in life.

Author : Arthur J. Baillie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCAL:B2805845

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Our Sunburnt Country by Arthur J. Baillie Pdf

Includes general chapter on the history, life-style and customs of the Aborigines.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546

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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pdf

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

Author : Stephanie Johnson
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780947492267

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Playing for Both Sides by Stephanie Johnson Pdf

For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stories, was actually published in Australia. She was described then as a young Australian writer, something she says she agreed to ‘for reasons that are complex and some of them hardly honourable’. For Johnson the longing to return has waxed and waned. ‘Why don’t I live there?’ she often asks herself. Yet she is a sixth-generation New Zealander. In this BWB Text Johnson explores her elusive and ambivalent feelings about the sunburnt country – which includes a musician’s road trip there with her singer-songwriter son Skyscraper Stan – and in so doing casts fascinating light on some of the formative influences that have shaped the work of this award-winning New Zealand writer.

Author : Fiona Palmer
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781742535968

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The Sunburnt Country by Fiona Palmer Pdf

Jonelle Baxter is a young woman in a man's world - a tough, hardworking motor mechanic from an idyllic country family. But lately things in her perfect life have been changing, and her workshop isn't the only local business that's struggling. Daniel Tyler is new in town, posted from the city to manage the community bank. As he tries to rein in the spiralling debts of Bundara, he uncovers all sorts of personal dramas and challenges. The last thing Jonny and Dan need is an unwanted attraction to each other. She has enough problems just keeping her livelihood going and he's fighting pressures that stretch all the way to Perth. It's going to take more than a good drop of rain to break the drought and bring change in love and in life. A moving and heartwarming story about the beauty that's found in the bush, especially in the most trying of times.