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A 1959 biography of Gustav Weindorfer (1874-1932), the Austrian-born naturalist who, with his wife Kate, built Waldheim chalet at Cradle Mountain from 1912 and campaigned for the area to become a national park.
![Half a Lifetime - 39 Years in Forestry in Tasmania, by North-East historian Garry Richardson | Foreword by Bob Gordon, Forestry Tasmania | 2009 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/half-a-lifetime-kwsT6p.png "Half a Lifetime - 39 Years in Forestry in Tasmania, by North-East historian Garry Richardson | Foreword by Bob Gordon, Forestry Tasmania | 2009 [USED – SC]")
Garry Richardson was born in the Huon Valley in 1950 and joined the Tasmanian Forestry Commission straight from school. Over 39 years he rose to being an experienced practitioner who acted as reviewer and mentor during the introduction of the state's Forest Practices Code — a career spanning enormous change in how Tasmania managed its forests. This is his own account, full of anecdotes reflecting the range of skills and life experience gathered across a forestry career, and the friendships built with colleagues across the wider forest sector.
Patsy Adam-Smith's autobiography of growing up as the child of railway workers in the Australian bush of Victoria's Goulburn Valley.
Written by popular and highly readable Australian historian Patsy Adam-Smith, this compelling volume tracks the lives, adventures, and fortunes of the seven prominent Irish patriots banished to the Van Diemen's Land penal colony following the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion.
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