Of Cyclones and Bovines: Living in the Torrid Zone
I grew up on a farm on the Western Slopes of New South Wales where in a good year the annual rainfall was 18 inches (450 mm). That amount of rain can fall in a matter of days in Far North Queensland and the frogs are of a size and colour that was unimaginable to me who had handled only the tiny frog...
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| description | I grew up on a farm on the Western Slopes of New South Wales where in a good year the annual rainfall was 18 inches (450 mm). That amount of rain can fall in a matter of days in Far North Queensland and the frogs are of a size and colour that was unimaginable to me who had handled only the tiny frogs of the drylands. To top it off, in the last five years I have endured two Category-5 cyclones, Larry and Yasi both of which hit us at Mission Beach where I spend my summers and as much of the year as I can. And then I went to India, South India where the monsoons fill the streets with water. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2d0a803ecd4d4a7faeea18e04c02406e2022-12-21T23:56:06ZengJames Cook UniversityeTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics1448-29402011-12-011010.25120/etropic.10.0.2011.3406Of Cyclones and Bovines: Living in the Torrid ZoneSusan Hawthorne 0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6352-7086James Cook University, AustraliaI grew up on a farm on the Western Slopes of New South Wales where in a good year the annual rainfall was 18 inches (450 mm). That amount of rain can fall in a matter of days in Far North Queensland and the frogs are of a size and colour that was unimaginable to me who had handled only the tiny frogs of the drylands. To top it off, in the last five years I have endured two Category-5 cyclones, Larry and Yasi both of which hit us at Mission Beach where I spend my summers and as much of the year as I can. And then I went to India, South India where the monsoons fill the streets with water.https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3406/3344north queenslandtorrid zonetropicspoetryindiamonsoonscyclonespoetic imagination |
| spellingShingle | Susan Hawthorne Of Cyclones and Bovines: Living in the Torrid Zone eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics north queensland torrid zone tropics poetry india monsoons cyclones poetic imagination |
| title | Of Cyclones and Bovines: Living in the Torrid Zone |
| title_full | Of Cyclones and Bovines: Living in the Torrid Zone |
| title_fullStr | Of Cyclones and Bovines: Living in the Torrid Zone |
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| title_short | Of Cyclones and Bovines: Living in the Torrid Zone |
| title_sort | of cyclones and bovines living in the torrid zone |
| topic | north queensland torrid zone tropics poetry india monsoons cyclones poetic imagination |
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