Big Timber (novel)

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

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

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

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

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

  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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