George Main George Main i(A107063 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Hidden Ecologies of a Weatherboard Wall George Main , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Living with the Anthropocene 2020;
1 Encounters with Stones George Main , 2014 single work essay
— Appears in: PAN , no. 11 2014-2015; (p. 77-81)
'We've had a hilltop fenced, to exclude sheep. A stony rise peppered with ancient white box trees. Sturdy, gnarled branches hollowed by time, cherished by birds, possums, sheltering their young. The fencer lives nearby, on a farm called Heaven. These paddocks, fertile slopes of productive red clay, north of the Murrumbidgee River in southern New South Wales, are heavenly. Such gentle terrain, waterholes on Pinchgut Creek, yellow box with monumental trunks, heartwood and bark and sap, lively records of so many seasons.' (Publication abstract)
1 Pinchgut Creek George Main , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , September no. 39/40 2006;
1 1 y separately published work icon Gunderbooka : A Stone Country Story George Main , Kingston : Resource Policy & Management , 2000 Z1678405 2000 selected work non-fiction oral history

'George Main writes with an eye for detail and a deep feeling and sense of involvement with Gunderbooka and its people and how they were shaped by it. People have left their tracks on the land as Aboriginal art and cultural sites, fences and homesteads. A new environment would emerge yet the character of Gunderbooka has prevailed.

This is so from the first Aboriginal people, to the European pastoralists, contemporary conservation managers and the Aboriginal people who now manage Gunderbooka again. Is this a complete circle or a continuum paced by powerful landscape? It is the unfolding of the land and its people.

Something else has also been achieved along the way. Those of us whose history started with Captain Cook died in abject boredom somewhere around Governor MacQuarie and are reminded that our history is much richer, much longer and more meaningful. We do go back a long way.

George takes us there with a history that starts with Aboriginal people and megafauna, 30,000 years ago. The European newcomers were impatient people with expectations born of another hemisphere, except for some, who could see other futures. Environmental histories such as Gunderbooka will be part of an emerging realisation that we still have a lot to learn about this truly wonderful country and that there are other paths on which to walk forward.' (Source: back cover)

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