RIVEREN

My Home, Our Country

by TERRY UNDERWOOD, with foreword by Darryl Somers

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Used hardcover book published 2000. Book measures 28 x 25 cms. 80 pages including many full-colour and B&W photos taken by the author. Book is in excellent condition - no marks, writing, tears, loose or missing pages. dustjacket is also in excellent condition.

In the Middle of Nowhere, Terry Underwood's unforgettable story of life on a remote cattle station in the heart of the Northern Territory, became an overnight bestseller. Now in Riveren: My Home, Our Country, Terry captures the essence and colour of life on her beloved Outback station in a breathtaking collection of her own photographs and stories.

This beautiful book brings alive the experience of Riveren: the people, the animals, the mighty landscape; the dust, the heat and the life-giving Wet.

Riveren: My Home, Our Country is a stunning souvenir for all those who fell in love with Terry's home on reading In the Middle of Nowhere and for those about to fall under its spell.

About the author

Wife, mother, cattlewoman, nurse, bookkeeper, cook, gardener, photographer and counsellor: these are just some of the roles Terry Underwood juggles each day on Riveren Station, which is situated on the headwaters of the Victoria River, 600 kilometres south-west of Katherine. Terry has been a winner of the Northern Territory Telstra Business Owner of the Year and a Northern Territory Rural Woman of the Year finalist. She has held positions on the Isolated Children's and Parents' Association, Katherine School of the Air Associates and Council, the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association and the Northern Territory University Council. In 1998 she was a delegate to the Second International Conference on Women in Agriculture in Washington DC.

Terry lives on Riveren Station with her husband John, son Michael and assorted animals. Her other three children - Marie, Patrick and Rebecca - return regularly to contribute to their beloved cattle station.

Riveren: My Home, Our Country is Terry's second book. Her first book, the bestselling In the Middle of Nowhere, which was first published in 1998

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Riveren My Home, Our Country by Terry Underwood