In Tasmania: A House at the End of the World by Nicholas Shakespeare ISBN 13: 9781843431572

Hardback. Very Good.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Harvill Press, 2004-12-28. Hardcover. Good.

London: Harvill Press. A clean, crisp hardcover in very good condition; light shelf wear. Near fine DJ in very good condition; faintly creased edges. . Very Good. Hardcover. 2004.

The Harvill Press, 11/11/2004. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Jacket. 5x1x8. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

The Harvill Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2004. Hard Cover. 8vo 1843431572 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Map end papers. 384 pages clean and tight. The settlement of Tasmania by Europeans began 200 years ago. Nicholas Shakespeare first went there, having heard of the island's exceptional beauty, and because it was famously remote. He soon decided that this was where he wanted to live. Only later did he discover a cache of letters written by an ancestor as corrupt as he was colourful: Anthony Fenn Kemp, the so-called "Father of Tasmania". On his mother's side, too, Shakespeare found he had unknown Tasmanian relations: a pair of spinsters who had never left their farm except once, in 1947, to buy shoes. Their journal recounted a saga beginning in North Devon in the 1890s with a dashing but profligate ancestor who, having played tennis with the Kaiser, ended his life in disgrace in the… Read More

The Harvill Press, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, bottom corners of boards gently bumped at tips o/w a very good tightly bound and clean copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket, maps to endpapers, b&w illustrations, 374pp.

The Harvill Press, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, a very good tightly bound and clean copy in a very good price clipped pictorial dust jacket that is now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve, maps to endpapers, b&w illustrations, 374pp.

The Harvill Press, 2004-11-11. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.8071 in x 23.3756 in x 15.9898 in. Unread. A clean, tight copy throughout with minimal wear. No markings. Unclipped dust jacket.

The Harvill Press, 2004-11-11. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.8071 in x 23.3756 in x 15.9898 in.

Harvill Press, 2004-12-28. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!