Rainforest and ravished snow

or "Before the bulldozer"

The coastal land of New South Wales, with the Great Dividing Range which presses upon it from the west, contains some of the most beautiful country on earth. Certainly that is Alan Andrews opinion, and he has never wanted any other land to wander in.

Here he nostalgically returns to some excursions taken as a boy and a young man, and singles out two phases in two separate areas that have delighted him.

The first is youthful ramblings in search of brush' - the rainforests that might remain in the catchments of the Hastings, Manning, and Hunter rivers. The Manning area, where his great-grandfather was a pioneer, has a particular interest for him and has special tales to
tell- all this 'before the bulldozer' and before the chainsaw. The other chosen area is the snowland of the Snowy Mountains.

Alan has written definitively on both the history of the highest portion of our continent in
Kosciusko: the Mountain in History and of Skiing the Western Faces, Kosciusko, but here
his interest is different again.