Endurance: Australian Stories of Drought

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Endurancepresents stories of ordinary Australiansgrappling with extraordinary circumstances, providinginsight into their lives, their experiences with droughtand their perceptions of climate change.The book opens with the physical impacts, science,politics and economics of drought and climatechange in rural Australia. It then highlights thecultural and historical dimensions taking usto the Mallee wheat-belt, where researcher DebAnderson interviewed farm families from 2004to 2007, as climate change awareness grew. Eachstory is grouped into one of three themes: Survival,Uncertainty and Adaptation.

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"Endurance is rich with voices and ideas -- with earthed experience -- and helps us think meaningfully about climate, culture and identity in Australia today. It's an impressive achievement."--Tom Griffiths FAHA, W K Hancock Professor of History and Director at the Centre for Environmental History

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Deb Anderson is a journalist and oral historian. She has published widely with Fairfax Media, principally for The Age, and recently joined Monash University as a lecturer, Australia. Debs fascination with nature and storytelling stems from her upbringing on a farm in one of the wettest parts of Australia, in tropical north Queensland, Australia.