![A Steamship for Hobart - S.S. Reemere 1909, campaign to preserve and restore a Tasmanian trading vessel | Graeme Broxam | Signed, No. 41/1000 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/ss-reemere-8554z1.png "A Steamship for Hobart - S.S. Reemere 1909, campaign to preserve and restore a Tasmanian trading vessel | Graeme Broxam | Signed, No. 41/1000 [USED – SC]")
The story of small trading craft plying Tasmania's bays, rivers and inlets, centred on the SS Reemere — a steamship launched in 1909 — and the campaign to preserve and restore her.
Sir John Franklin arrived to govern Van Diemen's Land in 1837, already well known for his Arctic exploration, but with no experience of colonial administration. He succeeded Sir George Arthur, whose twelve years running the colony with a firm, practised hand left large shoes to fill — and Franklin soon found himself at odds with Arthur's own former Colonial Secretary, John Montagu, still deeply entrenched in the Hobart bureaucracy.
![A Terrible Beauty – History of the Gordon River Country | Richard Flanagan | 1985 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/a-terrible-beauty-nEJQhj.png "A Terrible Beauty – History of the Gordon River Country | Richard Flanagan | 1985 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
Richard Flanagan's first book — published in 1985, more than a decade before his fiction career began, and long before The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. A Terrible Beauty is a history of the Gordon River country in Tasmania's south-west wilderness — the landscape that was at the centre of the Franklin Dam controversy in the early 1980s.
