A Forester's Log

by Angela Taylor

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522848397
• ISBN13: 9780522848397
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.6"