Just Tassie Books

A Tasmanian naturalist's journey of discovery and recovery.

The third book in a trilogy on iodine and public health in Tasmania, following Goitre Monitor: The History of Iodine Deficiency in Tasmania (2007) and Iodophor: Iodine Change in Tasmania (2014–2020). Seaweed traces the changing epidemiology of iodine deficiency disorders from Tibet to Tasmania, the history of iodised salt introduced to combat goitre from 1833, and the iodine prophylactic practices used in Tasmanian medical and agricultural history.

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose own life has been marked by tragedy, persuade him to stay.

Gathered here are three of writer Richard Flanagan's recent speeches in which he interweaves topics as diverse as troubadour poetry, love stories and the murder of the refugee Reza Barati; his top ten Tasmanian novels and the Australian Pacific solution; and his much-celebrated National Press Club address where he questioned the militarisation of Australian memory and argued for the need for formal Indigenous recognition.