The Ancients Children featuring corner blocks of the

featuring corner blocks of the City of Launceston

female thylacine

See the unseen details of hairy legs and shimmering wings through galleries of high-definition photography

This is a wonderfully well written and fresh look at one of the few universally known facts about our national history: the fast-moving and terrible fate that overtook the original inhabitants of Tasmania

He offers an astute analysis of the island's economic and demographic reality

The Ancients Children featuring corner blocks of theIn wild Tasmania there are trees whose direct ancestors lived with dinosaurs. Many of those alive today are thousands of years old, and some have been growing for ten millennia or more. They are mostly hard to reach, hidden in forest valleys or on remote mountains, survivors of human greed and fire. Prize winning nature writer Andrew Darby takes us on an island odyssey to discover the world's oldest surviving trees. First, he seeks the little known