They Came to a Rainforest

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Based on the diaries of district pioneers that forged open the Gippsland country, They Came to a Rainforest is a novel with Australian heart. In the 1870s, bush pioneers Miles and Maggie Ford established their freehold Rock Allen in the lush Gippsland rainforest, with a wilful determination to both work with the land and make it work for them. As their children bloomed into adulthood and Miles and Maggie themselves grew older, these archetypal Aussie battlers witnessed and experienced all there was to both love and loathe about the wonderful and terrible environment that they had chosen to reside in.Written in 1965, They Came to a Rainforest was first printed in serial form in the then Gippsland Standard between April 5 1967 and September 11 1968 and loved by all who read it. Brought to life 40 years later by Doris family, this is an epic tale of Australian bravery and strength.

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Doris Mary Boddy (nee Cook) worked as a teacher in regional Gippsland until she married a farmer whom she lived with at Carawatha for many years before retiring to Yarram. Doris had a love of literature and writing and her early short stories were printed in The Weekly Times while her poetry won Melbourne competitions. She went on to publish a small book entitled Beyond the Ninety-Mile which recorded the history of many early pioneers in Woodside and nearby districts, before penning her serial - They Came to a Rainforest.