How has Lawson managed to communicate a sense of isolation through the description of the setting in the opening passage?

The reader feels isolated even reading the setting. The setting is a two-room house built of logs and boards, with an outside kitchen and large veranda. It is surrounded by the vast, desolate Australian bush, and the nearest neighbor is nineteen miles away. This is the home of the drover’s wife and their four children; her husband, the drover, is away.