By James Boyce
Winner of the 2008 Colin Roderick Award
Almost half the convicts who got here to Australia got here to Van Diemen’s Land. There they discovered a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo financial system and a brand new method of life.
In this publication, James Boyce indicates how the convicts have been replaced by means of the wildlife they encountered. Escaping authority, they quickly settled clear of the cities, dressing in kangaroo dermis and dwelling off the land. in the back of the reputable try to create a bit England was once one other tale of edition, within which the negative, the exiled and the felony made a brand new domestic in an odd land.
This is their tale, the tale of Van Diemen’s Land.
Shortlisted within the 2009 best Minister's Literary Awards, the 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the 2010 Adelaide competition Awards for Literature, the 2008 Age ebook of the yr Awards, the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the 2008 NSW Premier's historical past Awards and the 2008 Australian e-book Awards
‘A awesome e-book and a must-read for someone attracted to how land shapes people.’ —Tim Flannery
‘The most important colonial background seeing that The deadly Shore. In re-imagining Australia's prior, it invents a brand new future.’ —Richard Flanagan
‘Like the simplest historical past, Van Diemen's Land isn't an artfully built narrative with the (inevitably insufficient) proof banished to endnotes, yet a discussion among historian and reader as they discover the delicate assets, and the silences, together.’ —Inga Clendinnen
‘The ebook of Van Diemen's Land indications a completely clean method of Australian history-writing … it is a extraordinary publication.’ —Alan Atkinson
‘A clean and gleaming account.’ —Henry Reynolds
James Boyce is the a number of award-winning writer of Born undesirable, 1835 and Van Diemen’s Land. He has a PhD from the collage of Tasmania, the place he's an honorary examine affiliate of the varsity of Geography and Environmental Studies.
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