Big Timber (novel)
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| Author | William Hatfield |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1936 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 266 pp. |
| Preceded by | Black Waterlily |
| Followed by | - |
Big Timber is a 1936 Australian novel by William Hatfield.[1]
The novel was set in the timber industry, where Hatfield had worked.[2]
The novel was serialised in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1936.[3]
The Bulletin called the novel "a conventional poor-boy-rich-girl romance which the author has made the vehicle of a considerable knowledge of the timber industry and of the lives of trees."[4]
The novel sold very well.[5]
Dale works as a tree feller and studies at university in an effort to be worthy of the love of a young woman. However his growing passion for re-forestation threatens to tear their romance apart.