A biography of Professor Theodore Thomson Flynn — zoologist, Royal Commissioner, academic and father of Errol. Theo Flynn arrived in Hobart to take up a professorship at the University of Tasmania at the age of 28, where he built a reputation as a leading researcher in marsupial biology.
This 2-volume Folio Society set compiles Wilfred Thesiger’s definitive travel classics, Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs. Together they provide a profound account of his journeys through the Empty Quarter of Arabia and his years living among the indigenous peoples of the Iraqi marshes.
In Nan Chauncy's classic Tasmanian children's novel, four English orphans - Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy - migrate to Tasmania, to the care of their Aunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart. Their arrival is greeted with enthusiasm by young farm boy Tas, and weeks of exploration and good times follow before Aunt Jandie goes to hospital, leaving the children in the care of Ma and Pa Pinner, her foreman and housekeeper.
A compendium of Tasmanian military history.

