by Nicholas Shakespeare · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781740513319
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«In Tasmania» is the historical and travel essay by Nicholas Shakespeare, published by Vintage Books in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Nicholas Shakespeare travels to Tasmania and decides to settle there after finding a house facing a nine-mile beach. He discovers that his ancestor Anthony Fenn Kemp, «the Father of Tasmania», was a turbulent figure, and that he still has relatives on the island. The book interweaves that experience with a journey through two centuries of Tasmanian history.
The book received the Tasmania Book Prize in 2007. The work was originally published in 2004; this edition is from 2005.
For readers interested in Australian history, travel literature, and personal memoirs.
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL is a British novelist, biographer, broadcaster, and journalist. He was described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best English novelists of our time". He has written biographies of Bruce Chatwin, Ian Fleming, and his aunt in Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France. Shakespeare is also known for his charity work.
