Land of the Lyre Bird: A Story of Early Settlement in the Great Forest of South Gippsland (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Land of the Lyre Bird: A Story of Early Settlement in the Great Forest of South Gippsland<br><br>In niost Australian settlements a majority of the settlers usually came from the land or had some knowledge of eountrv life but such was not the case here: a large. Number of them were from the towns - often young people from the families of professional or business men and with the education habits and general outlook of their class but with very little of the knowledge required for the life they had chosen. Others agam - working men - came in with little or no capital depending on the capitalists around them to provide them with the sinews of war in return for services rendered.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.