Undiscovered Tasmania

Author: Rochelle Dare
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1743588380
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Undiscovered Tasmania is your travel guide to the real Tasmania. Beyond the usual tourist attractions, this small island is brimming with special places to see and experience, and locals Rochelle and Wally Dare are here to let visitors in on their secrets. This isn’t your typical guidebook. Rochelle and Wally will take you deep into the Corinna Wilderness, along stretches of beautiful beaches and to their favourite places to camp. Sections include 'Beaches We Barefoot' (but NOT including Wineglass Bay), 'Roads We Trip', 'Towns We Explore' and 'Wildlife We Respect'. There's also advice for travelling on Tasmanian roads, a road toolkit, stories of locals and a focus on Tassie’s burgeoning food scene, from farm-to-plate restaurants to the best fish and chips in the state. Many experiences are uniquely Tasmanian like the Floating Sauna on Lake Derby, while the diversity of landscapes include the moon-like mining town of Queenstown and the rolling green hills of King Island that make it so perfect for dairy products. Featuring Rochelle's stunning photography throughout, this guide will take you to those places that fly under the radar, but represent the ultimate travel destinations across the Apple Isle. They're hidden gems and places that Rochelle and Wally hold dear in their hearts.

Backpacker

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Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

A History of Tasmania, from Its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time

Author: James Fenton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Book Description
James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.

Australian Geographic Tasmania

Author: Katrina O'Brien
Publisher: Woodslane Press
ISBN: 9781925403923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
This new 64-page Australian Geographic souvenir guide is full of vibrant photography and accompanied by a concise, fascinating commentary. It is an indispensable reminder and souvenir for both international and Australian visitors to this very special place. Includes sections on geography, history, wildlife and culture.

The Strand Magazine

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Languages : en
Pages : 816

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The Strand Magazine

Author: George Newnes
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 822

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The Life to Come

Author: Michelle De Kretser
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1936787830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Stella Prize Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award “For a novel concerned with dislocation, there's a lot of grounding humor in The Life to Come. Most of it comes at the expense of Pippa and her ilk, but de Kretser's observations are so spot on, you'll forgive her even as you cringe.”—Amelia Lester, New York Times Book Review Set in Australia, France, and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is about the stories we tell and don’t tell ourselves as individuals, as societies, and as nations. Driven by a vivid cast of characters, it explores necessary emigration, the art of fiction, and ethnic and class conflict. Pippa is a writer who longs for success and eventually comes to fear that she “missed everything important.” Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka, but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Sri Lankan Christabel endures her dull job and envisions a brighter future that “rose, glittered, and sank back,” while she neglects the love close at hand. The stand–alone yet connected worlds of The Life to Come offer meditations on intimacy, loneliness, and our flawed perception of reality. Enormously moving, gorgeously observant of physical detail, and often very funny, this new novel by Michelle de Kretser reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform and distort the present. It is teeming with life and earned wisdom—exhilaratingly contemporary, with the feel of a classic.

Only in Tasmania

Author: Sandra Huett
Publisher: Sandra Huett
ISBN: 0987185004
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
"Executions, murders, suicides, poisonings, shipwrecks, floods, cemetery desecration, airline crashes, fires, pre-historic discoveries - all this and more has occurred in Tasmania's relatively short 210 year history since colonisation... A plethora of true stories about the gruesome, shocking , amazing and amusing events from Tasmania's history..."--Back cover.

One Careless Night

Author: Christina Booth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760653958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
In One Careless Night, award-winning picture book creator Christina Booth tells the hauntingly beautiful story of Australia's last thylacine (Tasmanian tiger). Where the mist swallows mountains and winds whisper through ancient trees, a mother and her pup run wild and free. They hunt, but they are also hunted. Carted away. Sold for bounty. And then, one careless night ... The last thylacine is gone. The beautiful but heartbreaking story of Australia's last thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), which died in captivity.

Unexplored

Author: Martin Hawes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646857824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Unexplored is an art-quality coffee-table book featuring a foreword by Bob Brown and photographs of Tasmania's wild places by landscape photographer and author Martin Hawes. The book includes short passages of text in which Hawes relates experiences and impressions from his 50 years of bushwalking in Tasmania. The central theme of Unexplored is the apparent paradox between the wild and sublime aspects of wilderness, exemplified in Tasmania by the breathtaking beauty of its landscapes and the ferocity of the scrub that has kept parts of the island unexplored for the past 250 years. Hawes suggests that the landscape is alive, and that our relationship with the wild Earth is also unexplored territory.