Island Story Tasmania in Object and Text

• A lush, full-colour photo book of items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s wide-ranging collection, paired with selections of original writing about the southern island. • From the duo behind Deep South: Stories of Tasmania, Island Story features a curated series of photographs of almost sixty items from Hobart’s TMAG, each juxtaposed against a piece of brilliant writing. • Featured authors include Anthony Trollope, Marie Bjelke-Petersen, Helene Chung, Jim Everett, Heather Rose and Ben Walter. • Featured photographs include items as diverse as a thylacine pincushion, a convict cowl and a film star’s travelling suitcase. • The opening of the Museum of New and Old Art in 2011 and annual MONA FOMA and Dark Mofo festivals have brought Tasmania’s lively arts community to the fore, and turned Hobart into one of Australia’s leading arts and culture hubs. • This book pays tribute to all the things locals and visitors alike love about Tasmania—its exquisite natural beauty and impressive cultural scene—while also acknowledging the darker corners of the island’s past. • An outstanding addition to Text’s expanding Tasmania list. • Danielle Wood is the acclaimed author of The Alphabet of Light and Dark, and Ralph Crane is the author and editor of more than twenty academic books, and a professor at the University of Tasmania. Both live in Hobart. • This attractive coffee-table book has all the sleekness of the most beautiful gift books with all the intellectual heft readers expect of Crane and Wood, and makes a fabulous gift for locals and visitors to Tasmania alike.