Tasmania 40° South Issue 69Inside Issue 69: Opinion: Mining is forever Dr Buck Emberg Out of the mist, into obscurity Shane Humpherys The tragedy of the Northfleet Martin Hedges Portfolio: Solar maximum Fraser Johnston Head, heart and hands Mike Kerr Opinion: State of the State Saul Eslake Tasmanian Writers Prize 2013 winner: Mud flats Debi Hamilton Southern right whales Elsa Gales Getting intimate with chocolate Claire van Ryn And much more

I see his life as a river and I see his family as his personal changing landscape

and a remarkable account of one of the most isolated towns in Tasmania that existed for 87 years and suddenly disappeared

as selected by Dr Kristyn Harman

researched like a true historian and written like a true storyteller

Storm chaser Geoff Heriot

There is also an underlying message about the importance of feeling that you belong

in the house

Author Kristyn Harman offers insights into penal servitude in Van Diemen’s Land as revealed through the lived experiences of the men and sole woman transported from New Zealand

He has come a long way since then and now makes jokes about being a sign language interpreter and having a deaf mother

Postcards from the Asylum

The climate is vicious: an average 280 days of strong wind a year

Michelle Potter