Into the heart of Tasmania Fossils to be confronted by an

to be confronted by an unwelcoming society anxious to put its convict origins behind it

It opens with introductory spreads explaining how to recognise different bird’s eggs

Eloquently told

John Glover is Australia’s most distinguished early colonial artist and the only nineteenth-century painter to have had a successful career in Europe before migrating

Tasmania’s Surveyor General from 1859 to 1870

Into the heart of Tasmania Fossils to be confronted by anIn 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an