Convict Lives: - Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum by Dianne Snowden (Editor); Jane Harrington (Editor)
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Stories of women convicts who were incarcerated in the New Norfolk Lunatic Asylum
The Remarkable Captain James Kelly of Van Diemen's Land by Anthony Hope
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The story of the illegitimate son of a convict woman. Born in Parramatta in 1791, he went to sea at thirteen years of age, destined to become the first Australian born master mariner, a trader, explorer and entrepreneur. Moving to Hobart Town in 1814, he continued whaling and sealing adventures, inclu ...Show more
Safe Passage by Garry Richardson
$86.00 AUD
Category: History
The history of Tasmania's 14 manned lighthouses...and the ships that supplied them. Safe Passage is the most comprehensive book written on Tasmania’s 14 manned lighthouses, and the first compiled since they were all de-manned. The lighthouse keepers could not have survived without the supply ships tha ...Show more
Three Sheets to the Wind by Adam Courtenay
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 500 miles to save 7000 gallons of rum by the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was. When Campbell & Clark, Scottish merchants based in India, dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove to the colony of NSW in 1797, they were hopin ...Show more
TASMANIAS BEAUMARIS BEACH MYSTERY WHAT HAPPENED TO NANCY & VICTORIA by CALVERT MELANIE
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The mystery of what happened to 26-year-old German tourist Nancy Grunwaldt and 20-year-old Italian tourist Victoria Cafasso remains unsolved two decades later. Nancy disappeared without trace and Victoria was found brutally murdered, stabbed over forty times, on Beaumaris' lonely but beautiful beach. 'T ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"With a foreword by Richard Flanagan Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize 'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim Flannery Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a k ...Show more
The Convict Letter Writer by Alice Meredith Hodgson
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
From Limerick to Campbell Town to Detroit, Meredith Hodgson guides us through the remarkable life of Eliza Williams, and adds a heroine to the pages of our history.In 1851 Eliza was found guilty of theft and subsequently transported to Van Diemen's Land. She was despatched to serve with the other convic ...Show more
Tally Ho! Ride to Hounds by Pauline Buckby
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A History of Hunting in Tasmania from Colonial Times In Tasmania it is surprising to learn that a number of hunt clubs existed in the early days of the settlement – it was a way of life brought to the country with the privileged, wealthy landowners. Hunting has changed, yet paradoxically it has re ...Show more
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, new edition by Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and ’30s, Tongerlongeter and his allies led the most effective frontier resistance ever mounted on Australian soil. They killed or wounded some 354 — or 4 per cent — of the ...Show more
Closing Hell's Gates - Death of a convict station by MAXWELL-STEWART Hami
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of unimaginable cruelty at the hands of the system opted for "state-assisted" escape. Five terrified witnesses--their hands and feet bound--were forced to watch as the chained convicts seized Constable George Rex and drowned him in the tannin-staine ...Show more