Welcome back to yet another Traces Friday Book Giveaway! This week's spotlight book is "Fleeting Hopes: A history of Port Davey, South West Tasmania, Volume 1" written by Tony Fenton. Thank you to our friends at Forty South Publishing for generously donating this wonderful novel!
Port Davey, in Tasmania's rugged South West corner, is roadless even today. Such a wild landscape suggests an untrodden past, yet Tony Fenton has unearthed stories of human hopes and schemes, courage and folly, avarice and downright hard work.
A lost history, that of the Aboriginal people, is glimpsed from George Augustus Robinson's diaries as he made his persuasive journey into their country. Explorers, whalers and track-cutters came and went. The Huon pining industry brought families to settle at Port Davey, and prospectors hunted for mineral riches. Sailors were washed ashore on an uninhabited coast, to live or to die.
Tony Fenton has woven ground-breaking research into an intriguing narrative that reveals an unexpected past alive with people and plans, set in an impressive but unforgiving landscape.
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