| Description |
ix, 221 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
The Princess of Tasmania -- The garden city -- Around Launceston -- Flinders Island -- The Mutton-birders -- Graveyard of ships -- In the beginning -- Hobart -- The past and the present -- Round about the capital -- Unique to Tasmania -- Apples and scallops -- Bruny Island -- A tour to Port Arthur -- The Canadian exiles -- The East Coast -- Queenstown -- Port of the West -- A Tasmanian Robinson Crusoe -- Aboard the West Coaster -- The North-West -- National Parks -- The State's progress |
| Summary |
"Tasmania - Isle of Splendour, is yet another of his [Bill Beatty's] books that can be enjoyed more than once because its pages are packed with enthralling material. There are wondrous tales of the pioneers, bushrangers' escapades, mutinies, shipwrecks, grim stories of convict canibals. But the author shows that Tasmania is not merely a history-drenched island. We see it today as a Mecca of holidaymakers with its scenic charms and many tourist attractions, its fast growing economy resulting from the State's important position as one of the world's greatest fruit growing countries, its soundly-based heavy industries, and the harnessing of immense water resources for electric power."--Dust jacket |
| SUBJECT |
Tasmania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115474 -- Guidebooks.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001297
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Tasmania -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88006700
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Tasmania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479
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| Genre/Form |
Guidebooks.
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| LC no. |
64003938 |
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