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James Dryburgh is a Scottish-born Tasmanian writer. His writing on Latin America has been published by New Internationalist, Island Magazine, Smith Journal, Green Left Weekly, Online Opinion, Axis of Logic (USA), Correo del Orinoco (Venezuela) and others. Dryburgh writes for, and has been Editor of TasmanianTimes.com
yThe Balfour CorrespondentTasmania:The Bob Brown Foundation,2017149808652017selected work correspondence
James Dryburgh enters into correspondence with a teenage girl who, living in Balfour (now a ghost town) in the Tasmanian wilderness a century earlier, had written letters to a newspaper editor, detailing her daily life.