Nature's Line
Subtitle: George Goyder, Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary
Publisher: Wakefield Press Pty, Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9781743054666
Subjects: Environmentalists; Surveyors; Rain and rainfall; Architecture and climate
Description: 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. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of reliable rainfall, his repeated warnings about the threat of drought were scorned.