Author(s): Library of Australia National

New Gifts

Little Book of Weather reflects Australians fascination with the weather of their arid continent: watching for stormy skies to relieve the parched ground; hoping for clear skies on the day of the grand final; basking in the summer sun or snuggling under the doona on cold winter nights. As the years come and go, the devastating effects of the weather become part of Australian folklorethe 1895 Federation drought, the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia, the 1990 floods in New South Wales and Queensland the 2009 Victorian bushfires.