Robbins Island Saga [North-West Tasmania] – Pauline Buckby – Signed Annotated

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Robbins Island Saga [North-West Tasmania] – Pauline Buckby – Signed Annotated

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A fine copy of the comprehensive history of this fascinating island off the north-west of Tasmania.

Authored by local historian Pauline Buckby with a forward that sets the scene by Kerry Pink.

Signed by the author with thanks to Cyril Smith on publication. Cyril Smith, a maritime expert who along with shipwreck hero Jack Loney gets an acknowledgement.

Softcover, perfect bound, 186 pages very nicely and profusely illustrated. Effectively self-published in 1988.

Starts from the very beginning of settlement and the early whalers, then the Reids and the maritime Holyman’s … along the way a cheese factory and other ventures until after WWII when American Gene Hammond arrived and quite a story ... the Hammond family still have the island and “cowboy” their prized Wagu cattle across the channel to the mainland, an activity that can be seen on video if you search hard enough. Good people.

Robbins Island more than a wind farm.

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