Revolutions that shaped Tasmanian black and white wilderness photography from the sublime to the skyline. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
The Woodpecker Papers contains nature tales of Tasmania in the late 1800s from Rev Henry Dresser Atkinson, originally published in the Church Messenger and the Church News before 1900, and after that in the Tasmanian News.
Max Angus's tribute to Olegas Truchanas — the Lithuanian-born Tasmanian wilderness photographer, canoeist and environmental activist whose life and work directly shaped the course of Tasmanian conservation history. Truchanas arrived in Tasmania as a refugee after WWII and found in the island's wild places a landscape that moved him profoundly. He became an extraordinary wilderness photographer and one of the most skilled canoeists in Australia, making solo journeys through country that had defeated most previous expeditions
On 8 January 1835 the Neva sailed from Cork carrying 241 people — mostly Irish women convicts and the wives and children of convicts already transported, travelling to join their families in New South Wales. On 13 May 1835 the ship struck a reef just north of King Island in Bass Strait and sank. Of the 241 aboard, 224 drowned — one of the worst convict ship disasters in Australian history.
At its mining height Zeehan was the third largest town in Tasmania; Zeehan's railway yards handled the largest tonnages in the state, thus providing an economic stimulus to the North-West Coast particularly Burnie.
![The World of Olegas Truchanas | Max Angus | 1975 | Fifth Edition [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/world-of-olegas-fifthedition-YI0mD6.png "The World of Olegas Truchanas | Max Angus | 1975 | Fifth Edition [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
![The Wreck of the Neva – The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard | Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd | 2024 [NEW – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/wreck-of-the-neva-JwyOcU.png "The Wreck of the Neva – The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard | Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd | 2024 [NEW – HCDJ]")
