A comprehensive guide to all 121 species and subspecies of wattles / acacia found in Victoria and Tasmania includes notes on the habitat, distribution and special properties of each species.
Seafield Deuchar (born Brisbane, 1886) studied at Cambridge before settling near Wynyard in Tasmania's north-west in 1916, taking up and clearing pioneering farmland near Trowutta. This book, illustrated throughout with Deuchar's own paintings, covers clearing the forest, building the family home, water supply, early agriculture and exploration of the district, and the pioneers of Trowutta and district.
Meg Bignell's second novel — set in a fictional small Tasmanian coastal community where nothing much happens and everything matters. A woman who has always run from anything too real finds herself stranded in Nowhere River — a ramshackle town on the edge of nowhere, full of characters who've also washed up there for their own reasons.