The story of King Island's many shipwrecks, including the Cataraqui disaster of 1845 – Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, claiming around 400 lives – along with the Neva, British Admiral and Blencartha, and the lighthouses eventually built to make the treacherous western entrance to Bass Strait safer.
Starting with the first shipwreck in the waters around the Furneaux Islands — the Sydney Cove in 1797 — this book tells the stories of ships wrecked around the Furneaux Group, the islands at the eastern end of Bass Strait including Flinders Island, Cape Barren Island and Clarke Island.
Johnson Dean's memoir of early canoeing on Tasmania's wild rivers — the Franklin, Gordon, Pieman and King — in the years before the Franklin Dam campaign brought international attention to these waters.
John and Monica Chapman's guide to 31 short walks in the northern half of Tasmania — ranging from half an hour to 2.5 hours, most of them easy and suitable for families. Walks range geographically from Scamander on the East Coast north to Mt William, across to Launceston and the Bass Strait coast and hinterland, and west through Mole Creek, Cradle Mountain, Smithton and the Tarkine.
This hiking guide describes 31 walks that range from half to 2.5 hours in length in the southern half of Tasmania.
A book about the artworks of landscape painter Simpkinson de Wesselow in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District, 1844-1848. Signed and numbered hardcover/dustjacket edition.

