Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2005
On board the “Better Farming Train” is an array of educators and resources representing the latest in 1930s scientific wisdom & advice for people living in rural Victoria. Two of these people are Robert, a scientist who tests the content & health of soil samples by tasting them, and Jean, a knowledge-hungry seamstress. They marry and settle in the Mallee intending to prove their scientific methodologies, but in the midst of the Depression, drought, and with WW2 looming they are confronted with their own fragility in the ancient land.
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