A field guide to the seashells likely to be found on Tasmanian shores, covering all species over 10mm in length.
Michael Flynn's comprehensive history of the Second Fleet — the convoy of six ships that transported convicts to New South Wales in 1790, carrying what became known as one of the most brutal and deadly voyages in the history of convict transportation to Australia. The Second Fleet was operated by private contractors rather than the Royal Navy, and the conditions aboard were catastrophic.
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.

