$24.10
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2017
Summary
The story of how one man weathered years of drought and desperation to turn his farm - and his life - around.
Every day I watch my farm burn. Day after day, the sky is a relentless, empty blue. As our land dries up, all my hopes have turned to vapour, lost in that wide, blue yonder.
And so begins Doug Avery’s story of emotional resilience in the face of what at times seemed a hopeless situation.
The South Island farmer suffered terribly during eight years of drought. H…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143770787 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143770780 |
| Author: | Doug Avery |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 414g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 153mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Doug Avery
Doug Avery is director of Bonavaree Farm in Grassmere, South Marlborough. The 2400-hectare farm has been owned by the Avery family since 1919. The Averys won the 2010 ‘South Island Farmer of the Year’ for their work adapting farm-management systems in response to increasingly dry conditions. Doug was also Chairman of the Starborough/Flaxbourne Soil Conservation Group, an initiative whose innovative work has attracted both national and international attention.
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