Very Secret Trade Subject / History Clear Musk

Clear Musk

and Jackson Pollock

Set on the back roads of Australia

Philip Guston

this book encourages children to explore and care about the world around them

Very Secret Trade Subject / History Clear MuskAuthor of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history. In the nineteenth century, collectors and museum curators in Europe were fascinated by the antipodean colony of Tasmania. They cultivated contacts in the colony who could supply them with exotic specimens, including skeletons of the thylacine and the platypus. But they were not just interested in animals and