If they need something, if a cow escapes or a fence needs fixing. This is a lonely, unforgiving place, a bleak, raw place where where people live great distances from each other. But they know it is that which controls them and their lives. The landscape is the main star of the book and the characters those who try to live in it, survive in it and try to manage. The cows preferred to wander north, where the pickings were better and trees offered shade.” The ground was typically sparse for eleven months of the years and hidden under murky floodwater for the rest. If you get lost out here without water supplies, you die: Cattle stations dot the landscape, homes are few and far between. This is not just a setting, but a landscape of dust and dryness, heat and loss of hope. The way Jane captures the landscape of the outback is like a character in itself. Travel Guide “Balamara” Queensland, Australia
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