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Author McDonald, Roger, 1941-

Title The tree in changing light / Roger McDonald ; wood engravings by Rosalind Atkins
Published Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House Aust., 2001

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Description 177 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
regular print
Contents Planting out -- Where the fire has been -- Life of a tree planter -- Bush gardener -- The red bull -- Trees without names -- Signs for the gate -- The story of Rosie -- Secrets of Tu Bi-Shevat -- The park -- Wild man in landscape -- The seed -- At Sheep Camp -- At Ake Ake -- Into the light
Summary In this book, Roger McDonald meditates on our unique landscape and its rich tapestry of native and introduced trees, which 'give language to our existence'. The book also celebrates country men like his grandfather Chester Bucknall, a forester and pine-planter; Wilf Crane, Roger McDonald's mentor with trees who flew planes across country on solo planting raids and whose death while flying inspired this book; and Tom Wyatt, a bush gardener whose dedicateed hands made trees bloom in Queensland towns. Here, too, are historical vignettes of a landscape husbanded for many centuries by Aborigines, yet swiftly and irrevocably changed by European settlement; encounters with poets and painters inspired by trees; tales of ordinary people for whom trees are talismanic; and interwoven throughout are autobiographical sketches, slices of family history and episodes from Roger McDonald's own life as a writer and sometime planter of trees
Notes A Knopf Book
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 173-177
Subject McDonald, Roger, 1941-
Plants and civilization.
Trees -- Australia.
Trees -- History.
Forests and forestry -- History.
Trees -- Social aspects.
SUBJECT Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
Genre/Form History.
Author Atkins, Rosalind, 1957- artist
ISBN 0091836638 :
1740511816 paperback