# In Tasmania

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- Book: [In Tasmania](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-shakespeare/in-tasmania) ([In Tasmania.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-shakespeare/in-tasmania.md))
- Authors: [Nicholas Shakespeare](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-shakespeare)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9946-608-6
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2005-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares. But what makes this more than a personal quest is Shakespeare's discovery that, despite the nineteen century purges, the Tasmanian Aborigines were not, as previously believed, entirely wiped out.