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Susan Crennan

Deltroit and the Valley of Hillas Creek: A Social and Environmental History by Nicola Crichton-Brown

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July–August 2012, no. 343
Susan Crennan reviews 'Deltroit and the Valley of Hillas Creek: A Social and Environmental History' by Nicola Crichton-Brown

Deltroit (pronounced del-troy) is an exceptionally fine pastoral property and homestead in the Riverina – ‘pastoral’ in the Australian sense, with drovers, not shepherds, and the furies of fire, flood, and drought never far from mind, notwithstanding a privileged life in magnificent surroundings:

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