Tasmania

one of only two guidebooks to Tasmania extensive special chapter on Tasmania's national parks this edition includes an Environment chapter by Tim Flannery, GIS maps plus plenty of new boxed text material Tasmania gets about 800,000 visitors per year Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world and its rainwater is so pure that quantities have been shipped to Australian Olympic Athletes competing overseas Western Tasmania's World Heritage Area is one of the last great unspoilt temperate wilderness areas in the world Tasmania has Australia's oldest brewery, the Cascade brewery in Hobart a Huon pine tree in the south-west wilderness is estimated to be 4,000 years old, making it the oldest living thing on earth Tasmania has 68 golf courses - more per capita than any other state in Australia