The Living Heart by Frank Flynn with Keith Willey

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to foredges. Previous owner has inscribed book. Dust jacket has tears on front and back covers but now has a protective plastic cover.

Most Australians are fringe dwellers, with about 68% of the population living on the coastal plains. To them, the vast central plateau of this anciant continent offers one of the world's last frontiers. A great and open, empty country comprising some of the oldest sections of the earth's crust, it has been regarded as a sun-burned, wind-eroded, arid land.. the so-called dead heart of Australia.

Frank Flynn, who has lived in the Northern Territory since the early days of WWII, opens us up to the beauty and potential richness of a land where gardens bloom with an abandon seldom seen in the well-watered North, and yet where a man, lost and waterless, may perish. (book flap)