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.
A history of the EZ zinc works at Risdon, on the edge of Hobart, from 1916 to 1991. Tasmanian industrial history.
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.

