Into the heart of Tasmania Ocean he encounters other Tasmanian animals

he encounters other Tasmanian animals who offer him a place to live

beautifully illustrated with contemporary drawings

Although he was three times in British custody

The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long

the last known thylacine

Into the heart of Tasmania Ocean he encounters other Tasmanian animalsIn 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an