Last Hermit of Tasmania's West Coast, The: Tales of Jackey Stevens by Geoff Harwood | PB Maritime com/welby_ings_profile

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INSIDE ISSUE 98:

long ago in the wake of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination

Last Hermit of Tasmania's West Coast, The: Tales of Jackey Stevens by Geoff Harwood | PB Maritime com/welby_ings_profileAn un put downable tale flows effortlessly from Geoff Harwoods pen. ~Pete Hay Clarence John Lyell Stevens Jackey preferred a life of poverty and isolation to a society that had seriously let him down. He had been a hermit since returning from the Second World War. He cant bear to be anywhere near others, Queenstown old timers told Geoff Harwood. If he sees you, he will run away and hide. He wont talk to anybody. Yet Jackey did talk to Geoff. Across a