Big Timber is a 1936 Australian novel by William Hatfield.[1]

Big Timber
AuthorWilliam Hatfield
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication date
1936
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages266 pp.
Preceded byBlack Waterlily 
Followed by

The novel was set in the timber industry, where Hatfield had worked.[2]

The novel was serialised in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1936.[3]

The Bulletin called the novel "a conventional poor-boy-rich-girl romance which the author has made the vehicle of a considerable knowledge of the timber industry and of the lives of trees."[4]

The novel sold very well.[5]

Premise

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Dale works as a tree feller and studies at university in an effort to be worthy of the love of a young woman. However his growing passion for re-forestation threatens to tear their romance apart.

Adaptation

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In November 1935 it was announced Hatfield had been hired by Cinesound Films to adapt his story for a film.[6] Eventually Cinesound made Tall Timbers about the forestry industry but it was based on an original story by Frank Hurley.[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ ""HERALD'S" NEW SERIAL". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 620. New South Wales, Australia. 22 February 1936. p. 11. Retrieved 8 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Geoffrey Serle, 'Hatfield, William (1892–1969)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hatfield-william-6598/text11359, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 8 March 2024.
  3. ^ "BIG TIMBER". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 30, 622. New South Wales, Australia. 25 February 1936. p. 4. Retrieved 8 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Hatfield, William (18 November 1936). ""Reviewed Briefly"". The Bulletin. p. 4. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  5. ^ "TO SEE HITLER AND MUSSOLINI". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. II, no. 167. New South Wales, Australia. 2 October 1937. p. 3. Retrieved 8 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Ten New Australian Films". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 27, 833. Victoria, Australia. 2 November 1935. p. 26. Retrieved 8 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Notes on the Screen". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 27, 836. Victoria, Australia. 6 November 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 8 March 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ Hatfield, William (30 October 1935). ""Cinesound Plans Reveal 14 Features for 1936 Production U.S. DIRECTOR FOR FOUR OUTDOOR SUBJECTS: KEN G. HALL STARTS FIRST DECEMBER 1."". Everyones. p. 5. Retrieved 18 April 2024.

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