8 - 14 April 2010

Ever wanted the opportunity to walk the world famous Overland Track in the Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park with a historian by your side able to ask any question about the area’s human history? Ever wanted to learn the extraordinary human stories of this wild and beautiful area? To compare what there once was with what is there now? All this is now possible. Anthology takes great delight in offering The Historians Walk, a specially escorted walk along the Overland Track with Dr Nic Haygarth and Dr Simon Cubit, two expert Tasmanian high country historians.

Highlights of The Historian’s Walk will include stories and identification of artefacts associated with the:

• extraordinary struggles of early European exploration at places like Fury Gorge
• hardy prospectors and miners ever hopeful of the big strike near  Barn Bluff and at Pelion Plains
• battle of venture capitalists in Hobart and Launceston to put tracks or railways through from the east to the mineral-rich west coast in the 1890s
• enigmatic fur trade hunters who endured harsh high country winters to secure high quality wallaby and possum furs.
• opportunistic graziers and their lively legacy - the wild cattle of Pelion Plains from the 1920s to 1940s
• early tourism guides who from as early as 1915 brought people in on horseback and on foot to Cradle Valley, Pelion and Lake St Clair to experience the striking natural beauty of these places.
• early rangers, who struggled against isolation and harsh weather to build and maintain basic infrastructure for early walkers.