Books - Art and History

THE CARAVAN MOVES ON

Thirty years ago Tasmania's mistress of the strange held her first solo exhibition. To celebrate, she has produced a book of paintings spanning her entire career to date.
This hard-cover book, The Caravan Moves On contains a selection of photographs of one hundred of Elizabeth Barsham's stunningly beautiful paintings.

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BEFORE THEY BUILT THE BRIDGE

A light-hearted look at the history of Lindisfarne. Not the famous island, but a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania.
Elizabeth Barsham's family moved to the Eastern Shore in the early years of the 20th century. Accessible only by ferry from Hobart, Lindisfarne was then a bayside retreat of weekend cottages, orchards and dairy farms with a population of about two hundred. Elizabeth still lives in the farmhouse her grandfather and his brothers built; this book is based on anecdotes of the early days - "before they built the bridge, you know" - collected from elderly family acquaintances.

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JONES FAMILIES OF JERICHO

Notes on various Jones families living in the Jericho and Lower Marshes areas in Tasmania in the early nineteenth century.
This is the result of years of research compiled by Paul Jones in response to many requests for information. The earliest land grants in this area were to three different, unrelated Jones families who had several first names in common. This was already causing confusion in the 1820s, and as time passed two of these families intermarried, just to complicate matters further.
In this book Paul sorts out the first Tasmanian generations and lays out which family owned which properties.

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