Editorial: Tasmania’s Unspeakables

The Editor’s Desk
Readers’ letters from around the world.

The Irreverent Evers: A Beacon for Youth by Nick Evers

Art: ‘The Expedition’ by Warren Boyles and Lyn Wilson
Lorraine Biggs’s interpretation of the Baudin voyage.

Opinion: Choosing to Change by Saul Eslake
A provocative personal opinion from a distinguished Australian economist.

Food: A Cook’s Tour de Force by Eleonora Court
Book in with the best Tasmanian chefs.

Portfolio: Reade Allingham
One photographer’s beautiful, fragile wilderness.

National Trust: Clarendon by Peter Mercer
An English gentleman’s residence complete with estate village re-created in Van Diemen’s Land.

Wine: Home Hill – the Riches of Ranelagh by Warren Boyles
The Bennett family’s new winery and restaurant complex.

Botanica: The Colours of Autumn by Jim Duggan
A selection of Tasmania’s wildflowers.

Gardens: Thirlmere Manor by Rosemary Ann Ogilvie
The dream of Chris and Rod Walsh.

Books and Writers by Eleonora Court
Recent publications by and for Tasmanians.

Parting Shot
A mysterious machine.

Fluffies by David Otto
Surfing the giant waves off Tasman Peninsula.

Nicolas Baudin – the Bicentenary of the Expedition to Van Diemen’s Land of an Extraordinary French
Explorer by James Boyce and Pete Hay

No Gulf at the Battle of Bagdad by Warren Boyles
City v. the bush with willow and leather.

Tasmanite, a Geological Enigma
A rock rich in ancient micro-fossils that can be made to burn and to yield liquid fuels.

The Tasmanian Zebra Wolf
A nineteenth-century article about the thylacine accompanied by stills from a little-known film made in the 1930s at The Bronx Zoo, New York.

Cosmic Rays: Studies of Space by Ken McKracken
With ‘string and sealing wax’ Tasmanian physicists led the way.

The Mountain Festival by Chris Cooper and Lyn Wilson
Celebrating the UN International Year of Mountains.

A Rare Bird! By Eleonora Court
Ostriches: livestock of a very different nature.

Somercotes: a Chance to Revisit the 1820s by Mark Daffey
A Midlands property adapts to the changing times.

A Freewheel(chair)in’ Visit to Tasmania by Mark Laffin
An inspirational Australian and his impressions of our state.

Adopt-a-Track by Jo Field with Lyn Wilson
A volunteer program to construct and maintain our walking tracks.

The Sound Is Found by Dace Shugg
A thousand elephants heard at Low Head.