Hearts of Oak by Bill Leitch

Hearts of Oak

A Story Set in the Tasmanian Forests

by Bill Leitch

Southern Holdings, 1994, [Signed], ISBN 0949089141, black and white photographic plates and photographs, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition with minor edge and shelf wear, SIGNED by author on half title page, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping and crumpling to edges and corners, sunned spine (See photographs)

“Hearts of Oak shows us the earliest days of settlement in Hobart when convict timber gangs worked the slopes of Mt Wellington, when whaling flourished in Storm Bay, and boat building was forbidden.  It deals with the forest based industries from their beginning to modern times.”