However, archaeologist Peter Thorley describes how this is not the case, that long ago the region had an abundance of plants and wildlife, with human inhabitants living on the shores of a vast freshwater sea. He further explains that although this situation has continually changed, the Centre is still subject to massive periodic flooding - a phenomenon that is bound to be further affected by global warming.
But Thorley goes further than simply describing and explaining natural occurrences. Throughout the book he focuses on the ways people - both Indigenous and newcomers - have dealt with the effects of these floods, and how the wisdom they have thus gained may be important for us all.
298 pages; 235mm x 154mm
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