Author: James FentonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Bush Life in Tasmania Fifty Years Ago
Author: James FentonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Bush Life in Tasmania Fifty Years Ago
Author: James FentonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Van Diemen’s Land
Author: James BoycePublisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1921825391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Winner of the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize Winner of the 2008 Colin Roderick Award 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 kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book, James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon settled away from the towns, dressing in kangaroo skin and living off the land. Behind the official attempt to create a Little England was another story of adaptation, in which the poor, the exiled and the criminal made a new home in a strange land. This is their story, the story of Van Diemen’s Land. Shortlisted in the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the 2008 Age Book of the Year Awards, the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards and the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards ‘A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people.’ —Tim Flannery ‘The most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore. In re-imagining Australia's past, it invents a new future.’ —Richard Flanagan ‘Like the best history, Van Diemen's Land is not an artfully constructed narrative with the (inevitably inadequate) evidence banished to endnotes, but a dialogue between historian and reader as they explore the fragile sources, and the silences, together.’ —Inga Clendinnen ‘The publication of Van Diemen's Land signals an entirely fresh approach to Australian history-writing ... This is a brilliant publication.’ —Alan Atkinson ‘A fresh and sparkling account.’ —Henry Reynolds James Boyce is the multiple award-winning author of Born Bad, 1835 and Van Diemen’s Land. He has a PhD from the University of Tasmania, where he is an honorary research associate of the School of Geography and Environmental Studies.
Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911
Author: Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Burning Bush
Author: Stephen J. PynePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295998830
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies.”—New York Times Book Review
The Dictionary of Australasian Biography
Author: Philip MennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryUnion Line of Steamers
Author: Union Steam Ship Company of New ZealandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Road to Botany Bay
Author: Paul CarterPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081666997X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
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