Tasmanian Insights is a book of essays in honour of historian and librarian Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell including: a biographical memoir - The Castra scheme - early Tasmanian jewellers by Kevin Fahy - three recent Tasmanian imprints - Wattle Grove Press; Sullivan's Cover Publisher; Blubber Head Press by Geoffrey Farmer - shovelling out distressed gentlefolk by Peter Howell - pictorial collection of the Allport by Elizabeth Imasheve - early art in Australia by Joan Kerr - James Backhouse Walker, the Mope-Hawk and the Tasmanian public library by John Levett - architecture of Van Diemen's Land by Clive Lucas - Alexander Clark, colonial engineer by Alex C McLaren - maritime exploration of Van Diemen's Land by Helen Rosenman - Hobart and the polar regions 1840-1930 by Ann Savours - Government House Tasmania by Jessie Serle - Sir William Crowther, a biographical sketch by Caroline von Oppeln - archival days by Christopher Koch.
Signed by Geoffrey Stilwell.
This is an out-of-print book; it is in USED but generally good condition. Please contact the bookshop, Just Tassie Books at The Book Cellar, if you require additional detailed photos and description of condition before purchasing.
Hardcover book with dustjacket
Published 1992
Black/white images throughout
245-pages, indexed
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