The People's forest : a living history of Australia's forests [sound recording] / Gregg Borschmann
- Bib ID:
- 192086
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Borschmann, Gregg (Gregg John), 1955-
- Description:
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- Blackheath, N.S.W. : G. Borschmann in association with the National Library of Australia, [1995?]
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 11 min.) : analog, mono.
- Summary:
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Based on a set of interviews by Gregg Borschmann examining the dependence of Australian lifestyles on the management of its forest resources as part of the first national oral history collection on Australia's forest and bush heritage.
- Full contents:
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- Excerpts from two sample interviews: - 1. Mrs. Hannah Burke on the Victorian bushfire which destroyed her home on Jan. 13, 1939.
- 2. How Mrs Burke ran a boarding house for timberworkers on the Toorongo Plateau near Mt. Bau Bau during the 1940s.
- 3. Australian botanist Jim Willis remembers his entrance examination into the Victorian School of Forestry at Creswick.
- 4. How Willis brought Christmas cheer to a few dozen men working for their susso payment in one of the forest gangs in the Dandenongs.
- 5. How Willis preferred bicycle to riding horse in his forest patrols.
- Subject:
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- Forest management -- Australia
- Forest conservation -- Australia -- History
- Forests and forestry -- Social aspects -- Australia
- Forest degradation -- Australia -- History
- Foresters -- Australia -- Interviews
- Forests and forestry -- Economic conditions -- Australia
- Forest policy -- Australia
- Country life -- Australia -- History
- Other authors/contributors:
- National Library of Australia
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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