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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
SKU TBM9780646268255
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780646268255
Author: Jim Lowrie
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Self-published
Place: Geraldton WA
Year: 1996
Format: Paperback
Pages: 121 pages
Period: 20th Century
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.
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
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