Lake Eyre: A Journey Through the Heart of the Continent by Paul Lockyer

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Barely visible price sticker remnant on back cover. Interior and binding are still excellent.

At the heart of Australia, framed by desert, Lake Eyre, the country's biggest lake, seldom sees water. Most of the time, it is a vast, eerily empty salt pan, devoid of all life. But when the rains come and the great rivers flow down to their basin, an astonishing transformation takes place: the landscape fills with colour, with bird and animal life and with the crowds who have come to witness nature's grandest performance.

This was the story journalist Paul Lockyer set out to document in 2009, and then, unexpectedly, when the rains came back in the two years following. He met the people who choose to live in this harsh environment and traced its often dramatic history from early explorers to modern-day showmen.

Accompanied by stunning photographs, Paul tells the remarkable story of the lake, which resonates in the hearts and minds of so many Australians.