Possible Clues:

• Easy terms French author used in 'Snow on Glacier River'
• Form of credit that is at no time repeated
• Easy terms certainly not found in SF writer, the opposite
• Australian outback taken in by Jules thrice?
• HP land?
• Remote area always allowing for some small possibility?
• Hire-purchase
• Doubly emphatic rejection of a form of purchase
• One way to buy this land in Australia
• Imaginary, as Pan's land