I am a fifth generation Tasmanian, but fled my home state as soon as I graduated from university. I started my academic career in England and have held academic posts in Australia, Canada and Hong Kong.
Like the autumn leaf in the Chinese proverb, I too fell to my roots. I retired to Tasmania, where I live with my wife and partner, Catherine Tang. We are both now exercising our right hemispheres, Catherine with several genres of craftwork, me with writing fiction. My most recent novel, Tin Dragons, is about Chinese tin miners in Tasmania. It has had good reviews and has been reprinted. Tasmania Over Five Generations: Return to Van Diemen's land? is a socio-political history of Tasmania as described opposite, published by Forty Degrees South in December 2011. DOWNLOAD AND PRINT ORDER FORM (14% discount from RRP: $60 pp instead of $69.95)
Hong Kong and Tasmania have much in common. Both are islands; the inhabitants of both have a love-hate relationship with that looming presence, The Mainland; both are extraordinarily beautiful and mountainous; both have governments that refuse to recognize their charge of stewardship over that beauty, a beauty I have tried to capture in photographic images while it still lasts. My academic and other rovings are told in my memoirs and in travelogues. You may go on a slideshow tour of HK Island, HKU, Kowloon and walk the MacLehose Trail, the Pat Sing Leng range and the Lantau Trail. But then the British emblems come down and the Dragon takes over: Hong Kong and Its Hinterland
The Silk Route plus a bit more at each end: from Beijing to Moscow. Most of the TRAVELOGUES now have a full set of images. There are too many images to caption individually but the text will explain. Due to a technical difficulty in uploading a few are out of order. See "SLIDESHOW" beside each Travelogue.
PHOTO GALLERYhas slideshows each with a brief explanatory introduction, with a focus so far on Tasmania: Autumn leaves, the West Coast Abt Railway, a 4 day walk round lovely Maria Island (beautifully organised by " The Maria Island Walk "), Hobart's waterfront and CBD, some towns up the Midland Highway, our wedding photos-- and many more to come (galleries, not weddings).
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