Just Tassie Books

Geoff Law first rafted the Franklin River on a whim, inexperienced, in a leaky raft, with a travelling companion he barely knew. That trip drew him into the campaign to stop the river being dammed — a struggle that brought down a federal government.

A history and description of the Huon River district south of Hobart, written by Anne Stafford Bird under her married name Mrs Arthur H. Garnsey and published by Whitcombe & Tombs, undated but around 1947. The Huon district — with its apple orchards, timber industry, fishing communities and the settlements along the river from Huonville south to Geeveston and beyond — had a distinct and largely self-contained character through the first half of the 20th century, before roads and postwar development changed the valley.