Ngarak Press is owned and operated by regional historian Peter Gardner
and has been established since 1989. Initially a mail order business
Ngarak now deals substantially in secondhand books as well as
wholesaling and retailing its
new list.
Peter Gardner has lived in Gippsland for more than twenty-five years. During this time he has written
extensively on place names in Gippsland and South-east Australia. His books include
Names of Bass
Strait and recently Names on the Great Alpine Road between Wangaratta and Omeo.
He has also studied the history of the Gippsland Aboriginal tribes collectively known as the Kurnai and
has written three books on this subject. Whilst the Kurnai history is his specialty Gardner prefers to be known
as a regional historian and has published other works on literary, mining and environmental aspects of Gippsland's history.
He has worked as an emergency teacher, seasonal forestry worker, fire spotter, track marker, fencer and part-time prospector.
He is currently working as a secondhand bookdealer. His hobbies include reading, walking and football. He is married and has one daughter.
The Carbon Sink. Ngarak Press has commenced planting trees on the 10
hectare property known as Blowhard, Ensay North as a means of
offsetting carbon produced by its business operations. The
proprietor of Ngarak Press has been planting trees on his house
block of about 24 acres for 30 years.
Prior to the commencement of the Ngarak Carbon Neutral Plan in 2007
there were about 500 living trees on the block, plus a further 45
dead black wattles still standing, plus the stump and root systems
of a further 25 trees of this species.
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