{"product_id":"island-story","title":"Island Story","description":"This outstanding coffee table book pays tribute to all the things locals and visitors alike love about Tasmania -- its exquisite natural beauty and impressive cultural scene -- while also acknowledging the darker corners of the island's past\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA handsome full-colour book pairing unique items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with selections of original writing about the southern island.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous dispossession, a cruel penal history, gay-rights battles; exceptional landscapes, unusual wildlife, environmental activism; colonial architecture, arts and crafts, a thriving creative scene -- all are part of the story of Tasmania. And they find their expression in the unparalleled collection of Hobart's TMAG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIsland Story\u003c\/i\u003e, Ralph Crane and Danielle Wood select almost sixty representative TMAG objects: from shell necklaces to a convict cowl, colonial scrimshaw to a thylacine pincushion, contemporary photography to a film star's travelling case. Each is matched to texts old and new, by writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope, Marie Bjelke-Petersen, Helene Chung, Jim Everett, Heather Rose and Ben Walter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the perfect gift for anyone interested in the island everyone is talking about.","brand":"Ralph Crane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516783296573,"sku":null,"price":33.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925603965.jpg?v=1787572940","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/island-story","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}