Gumboots and Gelignite: Memories and Reflections of a Past Era by a Groupies Off-Sider 1928-1957 [Group 13 Devil's Own] by Jim Lowrie

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small mark on front cover. Some faint red dust marks on right foredge. Includes a separate page of Jim Lowrie's death notices.

Jim Lowrie emigrated from Liverpool in 1928 to take up farming at Cowaramup as part of the Group Settlement Scheme. Lowrie had been sponsored by the Young Australian League and went to work for Charles Smeath, part of Group 13 Devil's Own

Over the years, Lowrie witnessed many improvements in group settlement life, from very primitive conditions to the use of land-clearing bulldozers, to milking machines and soil improvements with fertilisers.

Jim past away in 2007.