Tasmania


Most Read This Week Tagged "Tasmania"

Lyrebird Hill
To Name Those Lost
Fatal Impact (Dr. Anya Crichton, #7)
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin : Victorian lady adventurer
Into That Forest
Shadow Of The Thylacine: One Man's Epic Search For The Tasmanian Tiger
Lost Voices
The Last Tiger
The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania
When the Night Comes
Bay of Fires
Poet's Cottage
A Bone of Fact
The Survivors
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Bruny
English Passengers
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
Limberlost
Death of a River Guide
Dusk
The Hunter
Flames
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Van Diemen's Land
In Tasmania
The Bluffs
Past the Shallows
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus ClarkeVanishing Falls by Poppy GeeGould's Book of Fish by Richard FlanaganThe Alphabet of Light and Dark by Danielle WoodThe Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
Tasmanian Gothic
24 books — 3 voters
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. StedmanA Town Like Alice by Nevil ShutePicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayThe Secret River by Kate GrenvilleThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Fictitious Australia
463 books — 115 voters


Van Diemen's land enjoys the great advantage of being free from a native population --Observation made by Charles Darwin, Feb 1836 ...more
James Boyce

Yuval Noah Harari
The few survivors were hounded into an evangelical concentration camp, where well-meaning but not particularly open-minded missionaries tried to indoctrinate them in the ways of the modern world. The Tasmanians were instructed in reading and writing, Christianity and various ‘productive skills’ such as sewing clothes and farming. But they refused to learn. They became ever more melancholic, stopped having children, lost all interest in life, and finally chose the only escape route from the moder ...more
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Tasmania A group for those living in, or interested in Tasmania
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This group is aimed to get you geared up for the 2017 Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival. Wh…more
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