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Grasping at Shadows - Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine

Grasping at Shadows - Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine
 
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In 1975 a young Adelaide teacher, who wanted to write for the theatre, fell in love with a geologist and followed him to the abandoned Tasmanian mining town of Balfour, in the Tarkine area. With another couple and their two small children, they lived the 1970s back-to-the-bush dream while operating a small-scale tin mining plant.

Part memoir, part history, this is a lively account of life in a remote Tasmanian mining community, in both the early 1900s and between 1975 and 1981.

Softcover book
Published 2021
Illustrated with colour and black/white photos
212-pages




SKU SKU19361
Quantity in stock 1 item(s) available
Weight 1.00 kg
Author Heather Nimmo
ISBN 9780645211733
 
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