Repression, Reform & Resillience: a History of the Cascades Female Factory by Alison Alexander
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
The Cascades Female Factory was the “largest institution for convict women in Van Diemen’s Land”. Repression, Reform & Resilience tells the story of the women who lived inside its walls.
Convict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory Volume 2 by Alison Alexander; Alice Meredith Hodgson
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
he fascinating lives of 29 female convicts who spent time in the Cascades Female Factory, between 1829 and 1855, are the subject of this book. The women range from young offenders to prosperous matriarchs; from tough customers to those educated enough to write letters home. Some got through the convict ...Show more
White Rag Burning - Irish Women Committing Arson to Be Transported by Dianne Snowden
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Between 1841 and 1853, nearly 250 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land on the other side of the world for committing arson. During the Great Famine, the number of Irish women transported for arson increased dramatically. In comparison, only small numbers of other convicts were trans ...Show more
Esther: The Extraordinary True Story of the First Fleet Girl Who Became First Lady of the Colony by Jessica North
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The little-known rags to riches love story of a convict girl who arrived in Australia on the First Fleet. Much like another, better-known colonial woman, Elizabeth Macarthur, Esther successfully managed her husband's property and became a significant figure in the new colony.
Eat Drink Love Tasmania 2 by Philip Kuruvita (Photographer); Vicki Kuruvita (Designed by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Tasmanian
One Woman's War and Peace: A Nurse's Journey Through the Royal Australian Air Force by Wing Commander Sharon Bown, (Retd.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Tasmanian
In 1999, idealistic 23-year-old Registered Nurse Sharon Bown left her comfortable family life in Tasmania and joined the Royal Australian Air Force with the aim of providing humanitarian aid to the world. Through her 16-year military career she deployed on three operations, barely survived a helicopter ...Show more
Coast - Tasmania: seascapes from the Roaring Forties by Andrew Wilson
$49.99 AUD
$79.95 (37% off)
Category: Tasmanian
Andrew Wilson has an eye for the dramatic and this is a very fresh pictorial portrait of Tasmania. There are extreme wilderness spots reached only by sea and some others of inhabited and favorite recreational areas, but all of them show the beauty and the extremes brought about by being in the path of t ...Show more