Very Secret Trade Publisher / ACB Press inaugural curator of Australian art

inaugural curator of Australian art at the National Gallery in Canberra

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The book’s form reflects its contrasting themes – it is literally a conversation in textures: photographs come to life on art paper

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Very Secret Trade Publisher / ACB Press inaugural curator of Australian artAuthor 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