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A Great Read - We loved itSide by side in Tasmania'sFar South West
The story of boats, storms and near shipwreck; of adventure, and self-reliance, set against a dramatic landscape.
This is the life story - and love story - of an extraordinary couple, Win & Clyde Clayton, who made a home in the wilderness of South West Tasmania.
Recommended by Christobel Mattingly,
author of King of the Wilderness
“Partly a personal memoir, largely a meticulously researched history, Win & Clyde opens the window on the lives of two people who were not in the common mould”
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A Woman of Courage
Recommended Read The journal of Rose de Freycineton her voyage around the world1817 to 1820
A remarkable story in the grand tradition of nineteenth-century romantic seafaring adventures, A Woman of Courage records the extraordinary journey of 22-year-old Rose De Freycinet, through her spellbinding letters to friends and family from 1817 to 1820.Refusing to face a painful separation form her husband, a naval officer appointed by the French government to command a round-the-world scientific expedition, Rose dressed in an officers uniform and stowed away on board the Uranie. Shipwrecks, disease, pirates, storms, near-starvation and picnics of penguin meat, strange customs, encounters with island royalty and travels to remote locations all the ingredients of a great adventure, and all endured for love.
A memorable story of an adventurous and spirited woman, this book includes beautiful colour plates reproduced form the original limited edition French publication.
$19.95Available from: NLA Bookshop
King of the Wilderness
Recommended Read Deny King was a special person Painter, Miner, Environmentalist Hermit and an adventurer Banksia Kingii named in his honour.
Christobel Mattingley's biography of him has you wondering how anyone could achieve so much, influence so many others, while still maintaining his privacy and integrity.
Deny King's domain was the remote south west of Tasmania. For more than 50 years he lived self-sufficiently in a region only accessible by foot through rugged wilderness or by boat along some of the most treacherous coastline in the world. Yet he corresponded with leading scientists around the world about plants and birds, he identified and protected rare and endangered species and had several new discoveries named after him.
He courted his wife for several years by letter after meeting her in hospital during his war service and then built her a house and all its furniture. He sailed several times a year round the fierce seas south of Tasmania to Hobart, delivering tin that he mined by hand. He painted and exhibited. He was an icon among bushwalkers, building huts, cutting tracks, and providing shelter and hospitality to anyone who came. Yet he was also a shy, retiring man, uncomfortable in the public gaze.
He spent fifty years living self-sufficiently in the rugged Tasmanian south-west and became internationally renowned for his exploits on land and sea. King of the Wilderness brings to life a man of strength and ingenuity, a man who made an indelible impression on everyone who met him.
$24.95 Available from: Text Publishing
Rare Book For a Good Read
Winner of NSW Premier'sLiterary Award for HistoryMarsden Hordern tells the story of Lt. Phillip Parker King who circumnavigated Australia 3 times, charting the Kimberley the first time. Unlike Nicolas Baudin, King, with 19 men on board the 54' ketch Mermaid, went up many rivers and into all bays.
The Last Cape Horners
Recommended Viewing ~ DVD An Oral History on Filmby Garry Kerr
The last Cape Horners is a journey through time that links two unlikely places, Port Victoria in Australia and the Aland Islands of Finland. A few could see that the last hurrah of the beautiful sailing ships was coming and three had taken movie cameras to record the living and working conditions on board those square riggers. Some of their unique footage is used in this DVD. Now old men, the Cape Horners of Australia and Finland, happily share their stories in this informative, exciting DVD.
Some speak of the romance of the sea, others shudder at the terrible conditions, but all agree it was an experience that shaped their lives and one they would not have missed for the world. Running time: 73 minutes
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Two veteran sailors explore Australia in their homemade yacht that takes them through crocodile infested waters to some of the world's oldest rock paintings, into pristine coral atolls, and through Hell’s Gates itself.Anyone interested in adventure and love surviving four decades of dueling with death will enjoy reading
Two's a Crewand Where Wild Winds Blow
Practical Boat Bits and Tips
For all withthe desire to enjoy life afloatSimply explainedOver 200 photos and diagrams
Cover Photo
After scaling a narrow crack in predawn light, from atop the plateau overlooking the Berkeley River we took the cover photo by remote control. Setting up our tripods, we watched the shadows disappear from the river while crocodiles searched the edges of the mangroves far below.
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Paperbacks available worldwideclick here to purchase online
Two veteran sailors explore Australia in their homemade yacht that takes them through crocodile infested waters to some of the world's oldest rock paintings, into pristine coral atolls, and through Hell’s Gates itself.Anyone interested in adventure and love surviving four decades of dueling with death will enjoy reading
Two's a Crewand Where Wild Winds Blow
Practical Boat Bits and Tips
For all withthe desire to enjoy life afloatSimply explainedOver 200 photos and diagrams
Cover Photo ~
After scaling a narrow crack in predawn light, from atop the plateau overlooking the Berkeley River we took the cover photo by remote control. Setting up our tripods, we watched the shadows disappear from the river while crocodiles searched the edges of the mangroves far below.
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Trading Ketches of South Australia
Recommended Viewing ~ DVD An Oral History on Film by Garry Kerr
From the mid-1800s, the small trading ketches of South Australia provided the vital links between farmers and producers in the coastal regions and the wider commercial world. The often remote farms and settlements relied on the ketches for their supplies and communication with the world at large and the transport of their produce.
It was life of hard work and shared burdens. The men and boys, and occasionally women, met the constant challenges of the sea, the weather and small profit margins. The last men and women who sailed these craft share their stories, blended with archival footage that records the era of the ketches.
$29.95 Available from: Boatbooks
My Love Must Wait
Recommended Read Romance, Passion, Lusty Adventure The story of Matthew Flinders Navigator, Explorer and Lover
When Matthew Flinders, the first man to chart and circumnavigate Australia, set sail from England in July 1801, he left behind the intrigues of his homeland and his young bride of only a few weeks, Ann Chappell. He didn't see her again for more than nine years.
During that time he carried out incredible feats of seamanship and navigation, made the first charts of much of the coastline of Australia, and was shipwrecked and later held prisoner by the French on Mauritius.
Written with great insight and sensitivity, My Love Must Wait is both a tender portrayal of faithful devotion, and a stirring re-creation of the courage and endurance of one of history's greatest seamen.
$24.95 Available from: NSW online
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Caitlin and Michael ~ “Bass Voyager”
We owe you a great debt of thanks as we have had such a wonderful time exploring the Western islands of Tassie – and now we are on the Tas mainland – a dream for both of us since we were kids!