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Published by LondonBBC/Andre Deutsch Ltd/Hutchinson, 1976
ISBN 10: 0233967923ISBN 13: 9780233967929
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Type: Hardback First Australian Edition. Hardcover Quarto and Illustrated Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition, illustrated with 40 pages of color photographs by the author, in original orange cloth with silver titles to spine, very bright and clean, light wear to corners and lower edge, tight and solid sewn binding. Except for small inscription on endpaper, internals are as new. After a period of unusually heavy rainfall, the red centre of Australia was changed from the hottest, driest desert in the world into meadows, pools of water, and with spectacular changes to scenery, and animal and plant life.This book is the story of how a film was made for the British Broadcasting Corporation in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and also provides a much fuller account by Barry Paine who witnessed this wonder of the miraculous devices evolved by plants, insects, reptiles, fish, birds, and mammals in order to survive the long years of almost compltet drought only to flare to life as soon as there is rain. 176 pages.7,75 x 10.5 inches. 1976, LondonBBC/Andre Deutsch Ltd/Hutchinson, London and Australia.
