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Title: Back from the brink : how Australia's landscape can be saved / Peter Andrews.
Author: Andrews, Peter. ; Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Publisher: Sydney : ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
Year: c2006.
Description: xii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject: Andrews, Peter. ; Revegetation. ; Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) ; Agriculture. ; Agriculture - Australia. ; Revegetation Australia. ; Hunter Valley region (N.S.W.) ; Afforestation. ; Soil conservation. ; Soil conservation Australia. ; Australia. ; Reforestation Australia.
Notes: Includes index.
[Uniform title:Australian story (Television program)]
ISBN/ISSN: 0733319629 (pbk.) 9780733319624 (pbk.);
Type: Book
Abstract: Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He has faced bankruptcy and family break-up. But now, on the brink of ecological disaster, leading politicians, international scientists and businessmen are beating a path to his door as they grapple with how
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