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In Tasmania – Shakespeare’s excursion into the deep heart of this strange island

IT WAS LATE on a cold Friday evening when I dropped into Desire bookshop. Cars’ headlights had been turned on

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Daring and exploration on Tasmania’s wild rivers

I’VE JUST FINISHED reading Johnson Dean’s Shooting the Franklin — early canoeing on Tasmania’s wild rivers, and have come away

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City in memory

We inhabit our own geographies... geographies formed by patterns of movement from home to work, from home to our recreational

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Misadventure on the way to the Walls

Tasmania, some time in the 1970s. CLAAAANG! Someone slams the car door and the party sets off into the early

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Mountains, memory and the nature of experience

PERHAPS I DIDN’T KNOW how to enjoy hardship. Perhaps I wasn’t cut out for this sort of thing. Perhaps the

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Just a minor incident

Tasmania, the late 1970s. UP AND UP. Through a dark, wet forest of towering trees. Along a rough track that

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