The Institute for Sapiens Studies
Live Bee Exports
Tasmanian honeybees in tip-top shape are traveling overseas →
A Gateway to Charm – Northwest Tasmania (1955)
1955 tourism assertions: “You will begin to feel that all of your dreams of peace and contentment are at last coming true” →
Meditations on Winter Customs
Short days and long nights can be bring familiarity and meaning. →
Mangroving: Discovering the Greatest Wilderness
“You and I, with our flexible shoulder joints, grasping hands and good visual depth perception, are still well-adapted to climb in trees. And when we do, we rediscover a talent most of us never knew we had: how to depend on nature with nothing intervening in between.” →
Leaves of the Big Tree
Life itself branches and branches and branches… →
The Battle of the Brewers
In a small little valley in the south of Tasmania, a war rages, every year. →
Far From Home
A Descriptive Air Composed for Three Fiddles. →
The Far Southwest – A Subversive Land
What makes a wilderness dangerous? →
Judah Solomon and the Building of the Hobart Synagogue
How the generosity of Judah Solomon facilitated the building of the oldest remaining synagogue in Australia →
Fifty People One Question — Launceston
What’s YOUR happiest memory? →