Red dust dreams : living in the outback / Lannah Sawers-Diggins
- Bib ID:
- 7245176
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sawers-Diggins, Lannah, author
- Description:
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- [Bowral, New South Wales] : Aurora House, 2017
- ©2017
- xvii, 500 pages, 61 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), 1 map, portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780994435385 (hardback)
- Summary:
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“Spectacular. Extraordinary. Peaceful and so quiet it is almost eerie. It also almost seems to be endless. This is that enormous area in the middle of Australia – and stretching to the coast in some places – It is the ‘outback’. Red Dust Dreams focuses on the domestic side of life on those massive stations. It is not an easy life. These people cope with the loneliness, isolation and lack of convenience that is readily available in the urban areas of the nation. The research covered three to four years travelling around Australia, criss-crossing the outback of South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, going from station to station, interviewing, chatting with, observing and photographing these people going about their daily lives from the domestic angle. Aspect included in Red Dust Dreams included entertainment, employment, education, shopping, mail, groceries, travel, holidays (what holidays?). Readers will learn where milk really does come from, meat, vegetables and fruit – and so much more. The people living out there are doing it tough, on stations as large as a European nation. Many are struggling on an almost daily basis, simply to survive.”--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Participating stations: South Australia – Alpana Station, Blinman; Pitcairn Station, Nackara; New South Wales – Sturt’s Meadows Station, Broken Hill; Kallara Station, via Burke; Uralla Station, Coonamble; Queensland – Ulcanbah Station, Pentland; Torquay Station, Hughenden; Windsor Park Station, Richmond; Judith Royl Station, Richmond; Lumeah Station, Tambo; Lamond’s Lagoon Station, Mt Garnet; Abingdon Downs Station, Georgetown; Old Glenore Station, Normanton; Northern Territory – Indiana Station, Alice Springs; Western Australia – Wonganoo Station, Leonora; Meeline Station, Mt Magnet; Yuin Station, Yalgoo; Birdwood Downs Station, Derby; Mt Augustus, Mount and Park, Meekatharra; Boolardy Station, Meekatharra.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Lving in the outback
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2017
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