On Saturday, November 20 Patrick will be at the bookshop to talk about and sign copies of his book 'Foothill Farmers'. Gippsland has an extensive imaginative literature of poetry, novels, plays, short stories and children's books as rich as any comparable region in Australia. As well as local writers like Mary Grant Bruce, Hal Porter, E. J. Brady and Mary Fullerton, famous Australian writers like Marcus Clarke, Henry Lawson, Rolf Boldrewood and Katherine Susannah Prichard wrote books based on Gippsland after visiting here.'Foothill Farmers' analyses imaginative works relating to exploration, Aborigines, squatting, selection, mining, timber-getting, war and other topics. There is a bibliography included listing 80 authors and 130 books.
This is the second book for Patrick Morgan who published 'The Settling of Gippsland: A Regional History' in 1988 which won the Victorian Community History Award in 1998. 'Foothill Farmers' was launched on October 22nd at the Monash University Auditorium at Churchill, by writer Chester Eagle.
Click here for a copy of the flyer for the book signing.
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