Axel Gillino Gillino itibaren South Stainley, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3 3NE, İngiltere itibaren South Stainley, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG3 3NE, İngiltere

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I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I will admit...I picked it up because I knew I would be going to see the movie (yes, because I like Robert Pattinson). However, although it was a little bit slow in parts I thought the story was sweet and just like in the movie the elephant stole the show!

This is an extremely readable history of some of the earliest European settlements in Australia told via the life stories of various characters from the past and present. From the 'father of Tasmania' (and, it seems, complete crook) Anthony Fenn Kemp to the supposedly "Tasmanian-born British actress" Merle Oberon, the stories are linked and interspersed with author Nicholas Shakespeare's own story in Tasmania. He tries to satisfy himself with answers to questions such as "was Truganini really the last Tasmanian Aborigine" and "how likely is it that the elusive Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine still exists"? This book if full of myths, legends and true stories about this amazing part of the country. I especially loved Ivy and Maud, the two elderly sisters who had only left their farm 7 times in their lifetime, and the furthest they had been was 70km on the train to Launceston! A wonderful read.

Delafield writes about the trials and tribulations of life in the country between the wars. Witty and charming (are all books by English female authors about pastoral life witty and charming?).