Deep South: Stories from Tasmania

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Looking for a formula to use as a skeleton for your studies in Guatemala? His extensive journey commenced unexpectedly in when he sighted a Tasmanian tiger along the shores of the Coorong in South Australia. A collection of twenty-four short stories that celebrate the history, culture and creativity of Tasmania. This handsome collection, the first to bring together the finest stories about Tasmania, includes works by notable early Australian writers, such as Marcus Clarke and Tasma; internationally renowned practitioners, like Hal Porter, Carmel Bird and Nicholas Shakespeare; and a range of newer voices, from Danielle Wood and Rohan Wilson to Rachael Treasure.

A must-read for enthusiasts of Australian literature, Deep South comes with a critical introduction from the editors and biographical sketches of the contributors:. Wilderness photographer Olegas Truchanas, who had spent years campaigning passionately to save the magnificent freshwater lake, had lost his battle.

But the campaign, the first of its kind in Australia, paved the way for later conservation successes, and turned Truchanas into a Tasmanian legend. Pedder dreaming quietly evokes the man, the time and the place. Told through the recollections of those who were closest to him, Truchanas emerges, as does his influence on early conservation in Tasmania, and the small group of landscape painters, the Sunday Group, who admired his passion for his wondrous landscape. Stunningly illustrated with original Truchanas photographs from the s through to the s, and with artwork from the Sunday Group, pedder dreaming captures the brutality, raw beauty and vulnerability of the Tasmanian wilderness and the legacy of one man who had the vision to fight for it.

The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This broad-ranging book is a comprehensive and critical account of that epic survival up to the present day. Starting from antiquity, the book examines the devastating arrival of Europeans and subsequent colonization, warfare and exile. It emphasizes the regionalism and separateness, a consistent feature of Aboriginal life since time immemorial that has led to the distinct identities we see in the present, including the unique place of the islanders of Bass Strait.

Carefully researched, using the findings of archaeologists and extensive documentary evidence, some only recently uncovered, this important book fills a long-time gap in Tasmanian history. The story of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania, from the arrival of the first whites to the present. While it contains much that is tragic, it is also a story of resilience and survival in the face of great odds. It is a book that will inform and move anyone with an interest in Australian history. Tasmanian Aborigines were driven off their land so white settlers could produce fine wool for the English textile mills.

By the time Truganini died in , they were considered to be extinct. Yet like so many other claims about them, this was wrong. Far from disappearing, the Tasmanian Aborigines actively resisted settler colonialism from the outset and have consistently campaigned for their rights and recognition as a distinct people through to the present.

Lyndall Ryan tells the story of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania, from before the arrival of the first whites to current political agendas. Tasmania has been the cradle of race relations in Australia, and their struggle for a place in their own country offers insights into the experiences of Aboriginal people nation-wide. For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle.

At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games are played in the courts and parliaments. In Into the Woods, Anna Krien, armed with a notebook, a sleeping bag and a rusty sedan, ventures behind the battlelines to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause. She speaks to ferals and premiers, sawmillers and whistle-blowers.

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She investigates personalities and convictions, methods and motives. This is a book about a company that wanted its way and the resistance that eventually forced it to change. Into the Woods is intimate, intrepid reporting by a fearless new voice. In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live.

Nicholas Shakespeare is a fine story teller and here he unveils for us a compendium of fascinating Tasmanian characters past and present, from bankrupt squires to convict cannibals, from love struck romantics to the captivating monstrous Anthony Fenn Kemp, the Flashman of early colonial Australia. From all these lives Shakespeare builds up a rich and powerful portrait of this intriguing land, his adopted home. The Hunter is the story of Martin, a skilled and ruthless mercenary sent into the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for a tiger believed to be extinct. He proceeds to set up base camp at a broken-down farmhouse, where he stays with a family whose father has gone missing.

Usually a loner, Martin becomes increasingly close to the family; however, as his attachment to the family grows, Martin is led down a path of unforeseen dangers, complicating his deadly mission. In , Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment, only to find a world less forgiving.. Abandon all hope you who enter. It was only two hundred years ago that Tasmania was a British colony known as Van Diemens Land — and so remote that its only use was as a penal settlement for the most hardened criminals.

Times have definitely changed, yet that remote untamed island of history is never far away. Today Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, is a bustling modern city and busy port. Mount Wellington rises straight out of the city to more than metres. Even in summer snow can fall here. The true story of Brant Webb and Todd Russell, who were trapped nearly a kilometer below the surface of the Beaconsfield Mine. The thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger because of its striped lower back or the Tasmanian wolf.

Native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, it is thought to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its family, Thylacinidae; specimens of other members of the family have been found in the fossil record dating back to the early Miocene.

The thylacine had become extremely rare or extinct on the Australian mainland before British settlement of the continent, but it survived on the island of Tasmania along with several other endemic species, including the Tasmanian devil. Intensive hunting encouraged by bounties is generally blamed for its extinction, but other contributing factors may have been disease, the introduction of dogs, and human encroachment into its habitat.

Despite its official classification as extinct, sightings are still reported, though none have been conclusively proven. On December 14th , the Tasmanian Wilderness Society began an on sight blockade of construction work on a dam to flood the Franklin River in south west Tasmania.

This action was the culmination of 7 years protest against the proposed dam. This conflict was the precursor to the infamous Franklin River conflict and also preempted the formation of famous Australian organisations, The Wilderness Society and The Greens political party. On December 14th , the Tasmanian Wilderness Society began an onsight blockade of construction work on a dam to flood the Franklin River in south west Tasmania. The Franklin River Blockade , Tasmania tells the story in two parts. Palmer Proposes Tax Free Tasmania.

The Lost Tribe — Guardian. Who inhabited Tasmania before the arrival of the explorers? Explore the history of Aboriginal Tasmanians.