Jan Sheldrick - ABC Radio National
Jan Sheldrick is an independent scholar and historian and the author of Nature's line: a biography of George Goyder, to be published in 2008 by Wakefield Press. She lives in Melbourne and discovered Goyder through a fascination with the landscape and ruins north of the line. "Goyder's Line: the unreliable history of the line of reliable rainfall" (in Tim Sherrat, Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds) A change in the weather: climate and culture in Australia, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2005, pp. 56-65) contains a summary of the understanding of the line which emer...
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