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A FORESTER'S LOG: THE STORY OF JOHN LA GERCHE AND THE BALLARAT-CRESWICK STATE FOREST 1882-1897
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| By: |
Angela Taylor (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£23.95 |
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£23.23 |
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£0.72 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0522848397 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780522848397 |
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| Publisher: |
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
8 November, 1994 |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
A forest story, told from a forester's viewpoint - the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generations of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest in the late-19th century. It provides an insight into a bailiff-forester's burdens in the 1880s and 1890s. |
| Synopsis: |
A Forester s Log is a unique forest story, told from a forester s viewpoint the view of John La Gerche, one of the first generation of foresters in Victoria, who managed the Ballarat Creswick State Forest in the late nineteenth century. La Gerche s Letter Books and Pocket Books have survived to provide a rare insight into a bailiff-forester s burdens in the 1880s and 1890s. As a bailiff, he daily had to confront prop cutters and woodcarters, scamps and vagabonds who constantly defied forest regulations. His pioneering work helped shape today s forested landscape around the Central Victorian goldfields town of Creswick, the home of forestry . In the detailed correspondence between this amateur forester and his bureaucratic masters lies the human story of an ordinary yet remarkable man, endeavouring to strike a fair balance between the competing demands of local woodcutters and distant officials. Angela Taylor reads between the lines to create a beautifully perceptive portrait of a vanishing character type the truly committed public servant. A Forester s Log is an illuminating and charming book which will appeal to a wide range of readers, both urban and rural, |
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16wraps |
| Publication: |
Australia |
| Imprint: |
Melbourne University Press |
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Returnable |
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