VVHickman OBE was Professor of Biology at the University of Tasmania 1943-1959, and became recognised as Australia's leading arachnologist. He personally described numerous Tasmanian spider species, including the Tasmanian funnel-web spider, and was honoured with an entire genus and family named after him — Hickmania and Hickmaniidae, the Tasmanian cave spider. This guide introduces Tasmania's common spiders through his own photographs and detailed drawings.
Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, operated as a convict penal settlement from 1825 to 1832 — established to ease overcrowding at Hobart — before closing due to frequent escapes and reopening as a probation station from 1842 to 1850. Darlington, at the island's north, is today regarded as the most intact surviving example of a convict probation station in Australia, and is UNESCO World Heritage-listed as part of the Australian Convict Sites.
Nanette Sharman's sequel history of Sulphur Creek — the small coastal community on Tasmania's north-west coast between Burnie and Penguin, known historically as Lingtown.
Randal Morrison's South of the Southern Land interweaves poetry, historic images and prose to explore colonial Van Diemen's Land, from the hardships faced by convicts and settlers to the clash of cultures that devastated the island's First People.
A bushwalking guidebook that covers all the main tracks and routes in South West and Wild Rivers National Parks in Tasmania.

