OTHER MEN'S JOBS
ONCE A MINER, by Norman Harrison; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, English price 12/6. LUMBERJACK, by Jock Fairlie; Hodder and Stoughton, English price 12/6. \V HEN friends have complained about miners’ strikes or the price of coal I have always said that I should not like to be a miner, and am willing to pay someone else to get the coal that, directly or indirectly, I use. Norman Harrison was man-powered in 1942 to the Snowdown coal-field in Kent. He stayed there for five years, shared in every kind of hard and dangerous work there is in a coalmine, "graduated" as a collier, and worked his own "stint" of coal, In this book he communicates his knowledge and experience in direct and graphic writing. Those who would like to know about the life of a coal-miner -in one coalmine at least-~-should read it. For myself, I’d rather be a lumber-jack-but too late now! Jock Fairlie, a news reporter in London, restless after demobilisation, suddenly decided to go to’ Canada and eventually got a job in a lumber camp on Vancouver Island. His book tells a vivid story of his experiences, and just how tough they were to a "limey.’ There’s a thread of romance, but it doesn’t get in the way of the main theme. His characters, as he tells
us, are synthesised, each from two or more real persons, and so they don’t behave consistently throughout. An informative and entertaining book, full of
good humour,
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 12
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251OTHER MEN'S JOBS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 794, 8 October 1954, Page 12
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