A luxurious 240 page illustrated hardback by much-loved ABC journalist Paul Lockyer, featuring photographs by Peter Elfes...

At the heart of Australia and framed by desert, Lake Eyre, the country’s biggest lake, seldom sees water. Most of the time it is a vast salt pan eerily empty, devoid of

all life. But when the rains come and the great rivers flow down to its basin, an astonishing transformation takes place: the landscape fills with colour, with bird and animal life and with the crowds who have come to witness nature’s grandest performance.

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