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The first volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission to house workers and their families during the great dam-building era in Tasmania's Central Highlands. Waddamana was the site of the HEC's first major power station, built in 1916 — now a museum. Shannon and Tarraleah were later construction camps and villages built to support the push into the Central Plateau in the 1930s.

The second volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission during Tasmania's great dam-building era. Volume Two covers four distinct HEC villages — Butlers Gorge, near Lake King William in the upper Derwent catchment; Bronte Park, on the Central Plateau near Bronte Lagoon; Trevallyn, the hydro suburb built on the hills above Launceston to house workers for the Trevallyn Power Station; and Wayatinah, a construction village in the southern Central Plateau.

Ned Terry's collection of recollections from people who lived and worked in Tasmania's Central Highlands — the cattlemen, snarers, drovers, hydro workers and families who made their living in the high country around Great Lake, the Mersey Valley, the Forth Valley and the surrounding plateau.