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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
The Victorian Naturalist
Author: A Forester's Log
Author: Angela TaylorPublisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522848397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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, including those interested in conservation and landscape heritage.
Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Author: Royal Society of South AustraliaPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The Emu
Author: Report of the Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Incorporated
Author: Royal Society of South AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated).
Author: Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated)
Author: Royal Society of South AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Royal Society of South AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters
Author: Society of American ForestersPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
List of members in vol. 1, 3, 6, 8, 11.