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Island Hopping in Tasmania's Roaring Forties -Mary E. Gillham: HB, 9780722332962
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller notes
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- ISBN
- 9780722332962
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Island Hopping in Tasmania's Roaring Forties
- Item Height
- 220mm
- Publisher
- Arthur H.Stockwell LTD
- Topic
- Nature, Travel Writing
- Item Width
- 140mm
- Number of Pages
- 500 Pages
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This is the story of an English naturalist who spent three summers on the Bass Strait and other small islands around Tasmania helping with research into the viability of the Mutton Bird Industry and its relationship with grazing, burning and other forms of land management. It is an anecdotal account of adventures on small boats and small planes and an extended tour on the lighthouse relief ship, SS Cape York , long since replaced by helicopter servicing. Encounters with wildlife, both on and offshore, are described, with emphasis on the sea birds and especially the mutton birds (short-tailed shearwaters) and the stalwart characters who spend part of each summer roughing it on the islands to harvest them - for meat, fat, oil and feathers. The main research base was a two-roomed but on a two-acre island off Flinders Island, the largest of the Furneaux Group in Eastern Bass Strait. Two final chapters deal with a similar community to that of Flinders - of ex-soldier settlers, farmers, fishermen and birders - on King Island in the Western strait. Other islands visited range north across Bass Strait along the coast of Victoria and around the east, south and west coasts of Tasmania - terrain very different from the often forested interior described by most travellers to this beautiful temperate Island State. Most of the action takes place during 1958-1960, but the main regions have been re-visited in the late 1980s and early 1990s and changes recorded. The author was born in a London suburb, and served in the Women's Land Army for five years during World War IL She became a postwar student in the University of Wales atAberystwyth and Bangor, and gained a degree in Agriculture, a first-class honours in Botany and a doctorate in Island Ecology. Now retired, she spent a quarter of a century lecturing in the Adult Education Department of the University of Wales at Cardiff; and also lectured in the universities of Exeter (Devon), Massey (New Zealand), Melbourne (Australia) and Kano (Nigeria). Field work has occupied an important place in her teaching and research activities, and she has led parties of naturalists on many field excursions at home and abroad. Her major research projects have been around the coasts of West Wales, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and she was one of the first four women to join an Antarctic expedition.
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Publisher
Arthur H.Stockwell LTD
ISBN-13
9780722332962
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89443080
Product Key Features
Book Title
Island Hopping in Tasmania's Roaring Forties
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Nature, Travel Writing
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
500 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
220mm
Item Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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- 3***3 (5)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseSuperbly packaged and delivered well ahead of predicted date. The book is in an amazing condition - with its own protective wallet. Exactly as described (if anything better with little evidence of use). A first edition - in the 80th year of commemorating VE Day - it is also excellent value for money, describing the Brigade I now serve in. Diolch - thank you.Reply from: 4curiosandthings- Feedback replied to by seller 4curiosandthings.- Feedback replied to by seller 4curiosandthings.Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback - Very much appreciated. We aim to deliver a service to be proud of. We would also like take this opportunity to thank you for your service to us. Diolch yn fawr. David
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