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Peter Grant

Peter Grant

Peter Grant is a Tasmanian writer with a special interest in natural history and heritage. For twenty-four years, he worked for Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service.

Peter Grant reviews 'The Tasmanian Aborigines' by Brian Plomley

August 1994, no. 163 01 August 1994
This is a sad, short book – sad in more ways than one. It is the last work of this century’s greatest authority on the Tasmanian Aborigines. It is the distillation of sixty years of detailed and diverse work. And it is deeply flawed. Brian Plomley, who died earlier this year, was best known for his doorstop volumes on the original Tasmanians (The Friendly Mission and Weep in Silence). For the ... (read more)