Author Description

This [book] illustrates the industry which cleared the bush and turned it into timber.... [It] captuires this vanished way-of-life in a... gallery which includes the felling of trees, working bullock teams and bush railways, along with the... "driving" of logs by water from wooden dams high in the hills. The pictures also show the vanished forests of Northland, Coromandel and the hills and coasts about Auckland city."--Back cover.