An 1880 edition of one of Louisa Anne Meredith's best-known works on Tasmanian natural history and colonial life. Meredith — who lived at Cambria near Swansea on the East Coast for much of her life — was one of the most prolific writers and illustrators of colonial Tasmania, and her natural history books are among the most vivid first-hand accounts of the island's wildlife and rural life in the 19th century.
A book of brief biographies and places in Tasmania linked to Henry Savery, Charles Rowcroft, David Burn, Thomas Richards, Louisa Anne Meredith, Caroline Leakey, Tasma, Mrs Humphrey Ward, Hubert Church, W.H.Dawson, James Hebblethwaite, Frank Penn-Smith, Helen Power, G.B.Lancaster, Marie Bjelke-Petersen, Isabel Dick, Hilda Bridges, Roy Bridges, Leslie Greener, Angela Thirkell, Nan Chauncy, Kathleen Graves, Louis Kaye, Catherine Shepherd, Alan Villiers, Norma Davis, Cynthia Nolan, Clive Sansom, and James McAuley.

