Wonderstruck: Treasuring Tasmania's Caves and Karst by Nic Haygarth | Paperback Philosophy It covered nine square kilometres

It covered nine square kilometres and was ringed on its eastern shore by a white quartzite beach and sand dunes

supremely indifferent to the wishes of a group of colonists at the far end of the world

Until the 1960s only indigenous Tasmanians and

her vessel off-course and lurching into the unknown

the explorers and the ecological battlegrounds

Wonderstruck: Treasuring Tasmania's Caves and Karst by Nic Haygarth | Paperback Philosophy It covered nine square kilometresCaves are places of wonder and mystery. By 1840 a Gothic regime of candles and bark torches heightened the thrill of the Sublime within Wet Cave on Mole Creek, in northern Tasmania. More than a dozen Tasmanian tourist caves, from Gunns Plains to Ida Bay, have glistened in guiding light. Farmers turned to home baked hospitality when the Industrial Revolution mobilised urban excursionists, opening private show caves by the glow of acetylene gas. After