An engaging collection of lyric essays and musings is found here. Each one celebrates a place that is unique within the ‘Great South Land’ while every location, with its beauty and variety, establishes a living link to the land that nurtures and sustains it. Diverse parts of Australia—deserts to mountains, rainforests to beaches, rugged escarpments to lush tropical wetlands—provide the special compass points on the longitudes and latitudes of our homeland.
