Environment
Fish and ships: under the influence of salmon
“Tasmanian Atlantic salmon” is a descriptor which arouses passions beyond most other three words ...
Steve Harris, a fourth-generation Tasmanian who began his journalism career in Hobart, is a former editor, editor-in-chief and publisher at The Age, Sunday Age and Herald Sun. He is a life member of the Melbourne Press Club, a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and in 2024 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant contributions to print journalism. Under the Influence of Salmon is his fourth book, following, Solomon’s Noose, the true story of a young Van Diemen’s Land convict who became Queen Victoria’s longest serving hangman; The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens, about the British Empire’s first juvenile prison in Van Diemen’s Land; and The Prince and the Assassin, about Australia’s first royal tour and act of political terrorism.
Steve Harris, a fourth-generation Tasmanian who began his journalism career in Hobart, is a former editor, editor-in-chief and publisher at The Age, Sunday Age and Herald Sun. He is a life member of the Melbourne Press Club, a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, and in 2024 was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant contributions to print journalism. Under the Influence of Salmon is his fourth book, following, Solomon’s Noose, the true story of a young Van Diemen’s Land convict who became Queen Victoria’s longest serving hangman; The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens, about the British Empire’s first juvenile prison in Van Diemen’s Land; and The Prince and the Assassin, about Australia’s first royal tour and act of political terrorism.
