![]() ![]() The men who worked with them hailed from all over the country. ![]() With axes and cross-saws they falled (according to the book the forest men always said falled, rather than felled) the huge hardwood trees of the Gippsland forests. As it was the Great Depression no money changed hands instead, the brothers were obliged to work off the debt. The brothers bought 550 acres of deserted farmland and regrowth forest. ![]() There some of the largest eucalyptus trees in Australia grew. They headed for the rich temperate forests of Gippsland, in the Great Dividing Range south-east of the state capital Melbourne. He and his older brother Harry arrived there in 1936, when Daryl was 17, after working on the north Queensland cattle routes. The book tells of Daryl Tonkin's life at Jackson's Track in the Gippsland region of south-eastern Victoria. It is narrated through the eyes of a man whose account testifies to his personal humanity, and sensitivity to those whose lives he touched. It is a story of rural life that is rarely told. ![]() Jackson's Track is a remarkable story of ordinary Australian people-Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal-living together under difficult circumstances. ![]()
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