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Apr 06, 2017
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Toni Tapp Coutts moved to Victoria with husband Shaun at the beginning of their marriage, but they knew before too long that they missed the vast outback spaces of the Northern Territory so when Shaun was offered a job back at Victoria River Downs Station, not too far from Killarney Station where Toni had grown up, they decided to take it on. But after some years the offer of a position on McArthur River Station in the Gulf Country, six hundred kilometres away and near the Queensland border mean
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This memoir is written in a very easy to read and honest manner, detailing Coutts's life in the Northern Territory. I found the descriptions of the '98 flood quite moving, most likely because I had left the Territory (and our property on the Daly River) only two years before. Our property would have been devastated, as many houses, businesses and properties were and Coutts's book brought home our near miss but made me feel for the people of Katherine. At times I wanted more detail about the diff
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