Duck and Green Peas! For Ever!

by Alison Alexander

‘Duck and green peas! For ever!’ This was a convict girl’s version of utopia in Tasmania. How many other people have searched for or stumbled upon utopia in Tasmania? Quite a few, as it turns out. They range from Aborigines to modern commune-dwellers, from scheming settlers to hopeful farmers, from young families escaping the devastation of war in Europe to those building a bomb-proof bunker in the Tasmania bush. Sometimes they succeeded. Sometimes they failed. This book tells their stories.

202 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

About the author

Alison Alexander is a Tasmanian author and historian. Formerly a lecturer in History at the University of Tasmania, her writing career was launched after she was inspired by her honours thesis focus on Mary Grant Bryce, the children’s author. This led Alison to write her first book Billabongs Author which was published by Allen and Unwin in 1979.

Abridged from https://taswriters.org/

Reviews

[Greg Joffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book for getting a quick overview of Tasmanian history, overlaid with what is utopia and the search of various people for their own Utopia in Tasmania. The writing is super engaging, the photographs provides insight and context. I loved it.