Drought
Subtitle: the red marauder
By: Michael Mckernan
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Crows Nest, NSW
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781741159059
Subjects: SCIENCE; History; Earth Sciences; Droughts; Meteorology & Climatology
Description: The story of drought, told through the eyes of people who have lived through droughts over the more than 200 years of European settlement - a story of creativity, endurance and suffering.
Notes: Title from e-book title screen (viewed Dec. 15, 2005).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Title page; Contents; Introduction; 1: 'The worst thing we could have entered upon to make money by'; 2: 'Don't pray for rain, dam it'; 3: 'They have come to the bottom of the flour bag and do not know how to replenish it'; 4: 'Really it's a wonder there are not more mad managers'; 5: 'Buying their experience through their mistakes'; 6: 'Drought sneaks up on you, but so does war'; 7: 'It is the one certainty of their way of life'; 8: 'Wider economic and political implications'; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.