Australia [antikvár]

Australia is many things to many people, infinite in variety and splendour, beautiful, harsh and uncompromising. It is a patient land, vast, full of contrasts, and totally unpredictable. Australia is unique in being the smallest most sparsely populated continent and the world's largest island. Its massive size, location and landforms govern the climate which varies to extremes. Nearly 40 percent of the land mass lies north of the Tropic of Capricorn, while to the south-east are extensive non-permanent snowfields. The vegetation is varied and spectacular, ranging from isolated tufts of ephemerals to lush tropical jungles. Water is the key to Australia's character, with flood and drought between them iaying down the terms that mean destruction or survival, offering supreme challenges to man's endurance and will to remain and wage battle A close encounter of the bírd kind. Wauchope. New South Wales. More and more women are enteríng what had been only considered an exclusively male domain. This young lady sheep shearer doesn't seem to find it a too-daunting task.