Jack Thwaites Bush Diaries
Jack Thwaites: Pioneer Tasmanian Bushwalker & Conservationist
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Jack's Story
The story of Jack Thwaites begins in the village of Kendal in Northern England.
It was here that Jack spent his childhood before emigrating to Tasmania. Jack's school days in both Kendal and Hobart are explained, along with his early introduction to the realm of nature.
The slopes of Mount Wellington drew Jack into an increasingly close attachment to the natural world. This influence would map out the future direction of both his working and recreational life.
Read of Jack's first forays into the Tasmanian bush and follow his landmark journeys to many wilderness destinations which now attract walkers from all over the world.
Jack Thwaites' story is very much a human one. Learn of his passion for the bush and how he spent his life introducing it to others. Jack and others helped lay the foundations of the modern conservation movement. This sensitively-written biography gives a fascinating insight into how Jack and his friends worked tirelessly to preserve Tasmania's historic and wilderness areas.
Meticulously researched from Jack's own diaries, together with archival and personal records, this book also draws on interviews from those people who knew Jack best.
The book is generously illustrated and contains many photographs and maps never previously published.
Jack Thwaites: Pioneer Tasmanian Bushwalker and Conservationist tells for the first time the story of one of Australia's best-loved bushwalkers. The book has been short-listed for the 2009 Tasmanian Book Prize.
RRP $55.00; Hardcover $65.00 plus postage & handling – National: $10.00 for first book, plus $2.00 for each additional book International: $20.00 for first book, plus $6.00 for each additional book. For further information or to place
an order contact: www.fortysouth.com.au
or Anne Thwaites, 44 Flinders Esplanade, Taroona Tas 7053.
Phone: 03 6227 9363
Jack Thwaites was a man who thought deeply about the world around him. The natural world was his second home, and, with others, he sought to protect it long before the concept of conservation entered public consciousness. He also cared equally for others, accepting all
with genuine warmth.
Jack joins a handful of pioneer bushwalkers and conservationists who,
in the early decades of the twentieth century, started to make significant contributions to the appreciation of the outdoors in Australia.
They demonstrated a deep love of the environment, and made determined
efforts to conserve it at a time when development was foremost in the
minds of governments.
Jack lived during a golden age of bushwalking and mountaineering in
Tasmania. Jack’s story reveals something of the man and provides a glimpse of a period when the Tasmanian bush remained largely untouched.
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