{"product_id":"island-story","title":"Island story","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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\nA handsome full-colour book pairing unique items from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with selections of original writing about the southern island.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Island Story, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the perfect gift for anyone interested in the island everyone is talking about.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ralph Crane, Danielle Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67632706912409,"sku":"9781925603965","price":8000.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/5642\/6905\/files\/island-story.jpg?v=1791549954","url":"https:\/\/booksworldstore.com\/products\/island-story","provider":"Books World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}