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Cave: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane; Lisa Fletcher
Category: Science | Series: Earth Ser.
Shortlisted for the Tratman Award 2015 To enter caves is to venture beyond the realm of the everyday. From huge vaulted caverns to impassable, water-filled passages; from the karst topography of Guilin in China to the lava tubes of Hawaii; from tiny remote pilgrimage sites to massive tourism enterprise ...Show more
Coal: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Earth Ser.
While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial revolution we have all benefitted from the mining of the black seam. Coal has influenced significantly the course of human history and our social and natural environ ...Show more
Deep South: Stories From Tasmania by Ralph Crane
Category: Fiction
Tasmania is another country - a lush, sometimes foreboding island with a people fiercely protective of its history, culture and creativity. This handsome collection, the first to bring together the finest stories about Tasmania, includes works by notable early Australian writers, such as Marcus Clarke a ...Show more
Deep South: Stories from Tasmania by Ralph Crane
Category: Fiction
A wonderful collection of twenty-four short stories that celebrate the history, culture and creativity of Tasmania. Tasmania is another country-a lush, sometimes foreboding island with a people fiercely protective of its history, culture and creativity. This handsome collection, the first to bring toget ...Show more
Island Genres, Genre Islands - Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction by Ralph Crane; Lisa Fletcher
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Rethinking the Island Ser.
'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers. Through a focus on four key genres--crime fiction, thrillers, popular romance fiction, and fantasy fiction--Crane and Fletcher show that genre is fundamental to bot ...Show more
Island Story - Tasmania in Object and Text by Ralph Crane; Danielle Wood
Category: Australian History
A handsome full-colour book pairing unique items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with selections of original writing about the southern island.Indigenous dispossession, a cruel penal history, gay-rights battles; exceptional landscapes, unusual wildlife, environmental activism; colonial archite ...Show more
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