Hugh Tranter Resume Hugh Tranter is an author and historian, with interests in creative writing and the research and examination of Australian history. Classes The Wreck of the Sydney Cove: Disaster and Survival in 1797 After the War: Australian Soldiers Who Became Artists Four National Parks around Sydney Philosophy Club: Revolutions of Mind and World The Heart of the Antarctic: Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition Winston Churchill: The Second World War The Australian Trans-Continental Railway Islands of Angry Ghosts: The Batavia Shipwreck Rediscovered Finding Lost Manuscripts: Renaissance Book Hunters