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Tasmania : isle of splendour / by Bill Beatty.

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Author Beatty, Bill, 1902-1972 (author)
Title Tasmania : isle of splendour / by Bill Beatty.
Edition Revised edition.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Melbourne, Victoria : Cassell Australia, 1967.
©1963.
Description ix, 221 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 22 cm.
Note This revised edition looks identical to the 1963 first edition, except for the mention of the 1967 Bushfires on the dust-jacket and in the Preface on ix, and a different cover picture showing a blossoming orchard. It relates to Beatty's 1967 visit to Tasmania.
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 one of Bill Beatty's most popular travel books. Its pages are filled with both historical fact and impressions from the author's recent visits. There are tales of the island's pioneers, bushrangers, mutinies, ship-wrecks and grim stories of convict cannibals. But the author shows that Tasmania is able to offer far more than a history-drenched past. It is shown today as an island for the visitor and holidaymaker with its scenic variety and many tourist amenities; its fast growing economy from the State's position as one of the world's greatest fruit growing centres; its expanding industries which even the severe bushfires of 1967 could not curb, and the harnessing of immense water resources for electric power."--Dust jacket.
Subjects Tasmania -- Guidebooks
Tasmania -- History
Tasmania -- Description and travel
Series Burkhardt Collection of Australian Local Histories
Call number BURKHARDT 919.46 BEA
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