Very Secret Trade Subject / History Extensively illustrated with reproductions of

Extensively illustrated with reproductions of the work of the Old Masters (including Rubens

This book uses the lens of automotive design to chart the evolution of culture over the last 100 years

' Rhoda Lalara'As children we used to go walkabout with our grandmothers and see the animals

Philip Guston

A meditation of wandering and wondering on Country

Very Secret Trade Subject / History Extensively illustrated with reproductions ofAuthor of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who could supply them with exotic specimens, including skeletons of the thylacine and the platypus. But they were not just interested in animals and