Women of the Land Eight Rural Women by Liz Harfull

Women of the Land Eight Rural Women by Liz HarfullMaking your living from the land in Australia is not for the faint hearted. Isolation, hard physical work, long hours and the vagaries of drought, floods and fire make it a challenging environment for any farmer. But how do you cope when you are a woman in what is traditionally a man's world? Women of the Land brings together the heart warming stories of eight rural women spread across Australia who run their own farms, capturing their ways of life,

The only contact with the outside world was the regular visit by the Flying Doctor's aeroplane and it was while here that Julie first started painting the landscape of the red sands

' Vanessa McCausland'Genuinely empowering

at least they still have each other - unless drama gets in the way

The Boy from the Mish announces a bold

Recalling Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man

While Ash dances

But most of all

this was their first fieldwork together in an illustrious joint career of almost fifty years

studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite

The book includes spreads on the Gondwana Garden

Lionel Frost

the only clues she has are a black-and-white photograph and the name of a woman pioneer who lived in Australia over one hundred years ago