Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce

ALMOST HALF OF THE CONVICTS WHO CAME TO AUSTRALIA came to Van Dieman'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 Dieman's Land.

Van Dieman's Land was short-listed for Newcomer of the Year in the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards, the Age Book of the Year Awards, the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction and First Book of History Award in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the History Book Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards, and the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize.

Genres: Nonfiction - Australia - Tasmania - History - Modern
Condition: Very good
Published: 2009 by Headline Feature
Pages: 388
ISBN: 9781863954242
Weight: 540g