Nature's Line: George Goyder, surveyor, environmentalist, visionary, 2nd Edition

Nature\'s Line
About the author
Title page
Imprint
Contents
Timeline
Acknowledgements
Preface – Never to be forgotten
Part one: In search of the rainfall
	Chapter one – Receiving the life of heaven
	Chapter two – The climate of paradise
	Chapter three – As far as the eye could reach
	Chapter four – Systematic observation
	Chapter five – Taking charge
	Chapter six – Bird\'s-eye view
	Chapter seven – Magnum opus: the people\'s grass
	Chapter eight – In search of the rainfall
Part two: The dark divide
	Chapter nine – Colonial morality: 1861–63
	Chapter ten – Transition: 1866–68
	Chapter eleven – Larrakia country: the founding of Darwin
	Chapter twelve – Going home
Part three: Universal genius and Clerk of the Weather
	Chapter thirteen – Nature\'s Line
	Chapter fourteen – Following the plough
	Chapter fifteen – Fresh water and peculiar country
	Chapter sixteen – Tree theories
	Chapter seventeen – The universal genius
Part four: Enduring marks
	Chapter eighteen – A house in the hills
	Chapter nineteen – Steward of all the Crown Lands
	Chapter twenty – Final years
	Chapter twenty-one – A gentleman of the Civil Service
	Chapter twenty-two – Remembering
Notes and abbreviations
Source list of South Australian parliamentary papers
Notes
List of illustrations
Index
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