In Tasmania: Adventures at the End of the World
- ISBN-10
- 0099466082
- ISBN-13
- 9780099466086
- Series
- In Tasmania
- Category
- Tasmania
- Pages
- 386
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Nicholas Shakespeare
Description
In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares. But what makes this more than a personal quest is Shakespeare's discovery that, despite the nineteen century purges, the Tasmanian Aborigines were not, as previously believed, entirely wiped out.
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