Author: Frederic AlgarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A Handbook to the Colony of Tasmania
Author: Frederic AlgarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A Hand-book to the Colony of Tasmania
Author: Tasmania. [Appendix.]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Van Diemen's Land (Large Print 16pt)
Author: James BoycePublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459600002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Large print.
Tasmania's Convicts
Author: Alison AlexanderPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459603907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land' it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of dozens of convicts and their families' she uncovers stories of success' failure' and everything in between. While some suffered harsh conditions' most served their time and were freed' becoming ordinary and peaceful citizens. Yet over the decades' a terrible stigma became associated with the convicts' and they and the whole colony went to extraordinary lengths to hide it. The majority of Tasmanians today have convict ancestry' whether they know it or not. While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history' Alison Alexander debates whether the convict past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania.
A Handbook to the Colony of Victoria, Australia. With a Map
Author: Frederic ALGARA Hand-Book to the Colony of South Australia. By the Editor of The"Australian and New Zealand Gazette."[With a Map.]
Author: Clockwork Magpies
Author: Emma WhitehallPublisher:
ISBN: 9781915179975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
By day, Ida is a quiet, standoffish maid in the employ of spoiled Lucinda Belmonte. By night, she is the infamous sneak thief known as the Rat Prince, terrorising the wealthy inhabitants of Loxport; especially Lucinda's lecherous suitor, Lord Devon Casterbury. Soon the boundaries between her dual lives begin to blur, as her mask begins to drop around a delightful waitress and a charming jeweller who both insist on befriending Ida. All the while she is thrust into a conflict surrounding new and dangerous materials that could upend the order of the city, land her behind bars or worse: in Lord Casterbury's employ. A thrilling romp through the Steampunk city of Loxport, Clockwork Magpies is a story of found family, crimes plotted over tea and scones, and the sinister power of glowing gemstones.
The History of Tasmania
Author: John WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Tasmanians
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Author's copy. Printed, with MS. corrections and annotations by the author. Handwriting identical with that in a letter from West to Edward Wise, 5 June 1864 in ML MSS. 1327/3, pp. 315-317. 1. pp. 209-340 are missing, with blank pages inserted at the back used for annotations. 2. identical with other copies of the volume.
Walch's Tasmanian Guide Book
Author: Gould's Book of Fish
Author: Richard FlanaganPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802191991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Winner of the Commonwealth Prize New York Times Book Review—Notable Fiction 2002 Entertainment Weekly—Best Fiction of 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Review—Best of the Best 2002 Washington Post Book World—Raves 2002 Chicago Tribune—Favorite Books of 2002 Christian Science Monitor—Best Books 2002 Publishers Weekly—Best Books of 2002 The Cleveland Plain Dealer—Year’s Best Books Minneapolis Star Tribune—Standout Books of 2002 Once upon a time, when the earth was still young, before the fish in the sea and all the living things on land began to be destroyed, a man named William Buelow Gould was sentenced to life imprisonment at the most feared penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. He fell in love with the black mistress of the warder and discovered too late that to love is not safe; he attempted to keep a record of the strange reality he saw in prison, only to realize that history is not written by those who are ruled. Acclaimed as a masterpiece around the world, Gould’s Book of Fish is at once a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia and a contemporary fable, a tale of horror, and a celebration of love, all transformed by a convict painter into pictures of fish.