In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare

In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781740512718
Author: Nicholas Shakespeare
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Random House Australia
Place: Milsons Point NSW
Year: 2004
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384 pages

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Pages are sunned. Dust jacket has small tears at top front and back covers - now reinforced with book tape.

In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn't know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp, now known as the Father of Tasmania, or that he would find relatives living on the island.

Shakespeare interweaves his personal journey into a new-found paradise with a brilliant account of the two turbulent centuries of Tasmania's history in this fascinating and timely book.

Nicholas Shakespeare is a fine storyteller and here he unveils for us a compendium of fascinating Tasmanian characters past and present, from bankrupt squires to convict cannibals, from love-struck romantics to the captivating monstrous Anthony Fenn Kemp, the Flashman of early colonial Australia. From all these lives Shakespeare builds up a rich and powerful portrait of this intriguing land, his adopted home. (publisher blurb)

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