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Mountains and Valley by Pete Hay and Tony Thorne

  • 93 Cimitiere St, Launceston TAS 7250, Australia · Launceston
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Mountains and Valley by Pete Hay and Tony Thorne
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Join Petrarch's Bookshop at St Lukes Launceston as we launch Mountains and Valley by Pete Hay and Tony Thorne in conversation with Tasmanian storyteller Bert Spinks.
A testament to the enduring power of two of Tasmania’s great storytellers.
Geographical, historical, political, Mountains & Valley takes us through the Central Highlands and down the Derwent, from the land’s geological formation, on through invasion – ‘the inexorable inward tide’ – and into a time of ‘twee cafes serving Devonshire tea’. We glance into the lives of Kikatapula, making ‘the best of a bad bargain’, an Ouse ambulance driver on the way to ‘a prang just out of Derwent Bridge’ and a spotted-tailed quoll ‘speaking grace / speaking a deceptive delicacy’. ~Jane Rawson, author of Human/Nature: On life in a wild world and Editor of Island.
Book sales available at the event.
Ticket includes a drink on arrival.
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93 Cimitiere St, Launceston TAS 7250, Australia, 89 Cimitiere St, Launceston TAS 7250, Australia, Launceston

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