![The Set of the Sails – The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman | Alan Villiers | 1997 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/set-of-the-sails-hc-f0MasP.png "The Set of the Sails – The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman | Alan Villiers | 1997 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]")
Alan Villiers' own account of his early years as a working seaman aboard the last commercial square-rigged sailing ships rounding Cape Horn, published in 1997. Villiers spent time in Tasmania during the formative period of his career — working as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury between voyages, and sailing from Hobart as a reporter with a Norwegian Antarctic whaling fleet.
The Shank provides detailed sketches and superb aerial photography of some of the great anchorages along Tasmania's south and west coasts, from Recherche Bay to Port Davey, and beyond to Macquarie Harbour.
![The Shape of Water – Imagined Fragments from an Elusive Life: Sophia Degraves of Van Diemen's Land | Anne Blythe-Cooper | 2016 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/shape-of-water-8j7Xxl.png "The Shape of Water – Imagined Fragments from an Elusive Life: Sophia Degraves of Van Diemen's Land | Anne Blythe-Cooper | 2016 [SC]")
The imagined story of Sophia Degraves — wife of Peter Degraves, founder of the Cascade Brewery and the Theatre Royal in Hobart Town, whose legacy endures in both institutions still operating today.
![The Silence Calling – Australians in Antarctica 1947–1997 | Tim Bowden | 1997 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/silence-calling-vpZiKY.png "The Silence Calling – Australians in Antarctica 1947–1997 | Tim Bowden | 1997 [USED – HCDJ]")
The official jubilee history of ANARE — the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions — covering fifty years of Australian involvement in Antarctica from 1947 to 1997. Written by Tim Bowden and published to mark the 50th anniversary of Australia's Antarctic program.
![The Sooterkin | Tom Gilling | 1999 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/sooterkin-FJ8K7f.png "The Sooterkin | Tom Gilling | 1999 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
Set in early 19th century Hobart Town, The Sooterkin is a darkly comic novel about a convict woman who gives birth to a creature that may or may not be human — a being the colonists cannot categorise and don't know what to do with. Tom Gilling uses the premise to examine colonial society's obsessions with classification, propriety and the fear of the strange in Van Diemen's Land.
