Just Tassie Books

John and Monica Chapman's guide to 31 short walks in the northern half of Tasmania — ranging from half an hour to 2.5 hours, most of them easy and suitable for families. Walks range geographically from Scamander on the East Coast north to Mt William, across to Launceston and the Bass Strait coast and hinterland, and west through Mole Creek, Cradle Mountain, Smithton and the Tarkine.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick's scholarly biography of Sir John Franklin's tenure as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1837 to 1843 — published by Melbourne University Press in 1949 and still the standard academic account of Franklin's Tasmanian years. Franklin is better known for his fatal 1845 Arctic expedition searching for the Northwest Passage — the expedition from which neither he nor any of his 128 men returned, and whose fate remained one of the great mysteries of Victorian exploration for over a century. But his six years in Van Diemen's Land as Lieutenant-Governor were also significant.