Aboriginal fire sparks winning book

By Jason Steger
Updated October 17 2012 - 7:08am, first published 3:00am
Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Bill Gammage.
Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Bill Gammage.

IT WAS as a teenager carting hay in the bush outside Wagga Wagga that Bill Gammage's lifelong curiosity about the Australian landscape emerged. What initially puzzled him was that certain trees were not growing in the soils that he knew best suited them. ''It led me to all sorts of possibilities.''