The People's Forest: A Living History of the Australian Bush by Borschmann, Gregg - 1999

The People's Forest Press, 1999. Softcover (24 x 28 cm), vii, 279 pages. ISBN: 0646369393. Ex-Library copy. Good condition. No slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. Black & white photographs/illustrations. The wraps are covered in a permanently attached archival book cover. Bumped, creased. Soiled along page edges. Hinges reinforced with tape. The only external library mark is a library stamp across the page fore edge. There are library sticker/stamps on the first page, title page, and last page. "The People's Forest' is the first national oral history collection of Australian landscape memory and folklore. More than eight years in the making, this is the hitherto untold story - the crucial cultural heritage - of our forests and woodlands. It is a poignant record of human failure and achievement. Here you will find hard work, hope and tears in portraits of old and new pioneering. These compelling human stories represent a selection from the 88 interviews of Australian men and women whose very different life stories were collected between 1992 and 1997. Recorded in association with the National Library of Australia, 'The People's Forest' also presents the best of the Library's forest pictorial record."