The text is illustrated with colour photography and colour reproductions of Mike Ponder's artwork. Gray coloured boards with gilt embossed titles to the front panel and backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Mike Ponder, with maroon and white coloured titles to the front panel and maroon coloured titles to the backstrip. A series of oil paintings by the Australsian painter Mike Ponder -- focusing on the working life of the men and women on the land.