Van Diemen's Land
by James Boyce
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 1863954244
- ISBN 13
- 9781863954242
- Seller
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Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Black Inc., 2009. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Paper Edition. 155mm x 235mm. Covers have light general wear. Spine not creased. Even age-toning to edges of page-bock. Gft inscription to half-title page, otherwise internally clean. 388pp Winner of the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize. 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..
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- Bookseller
- Lectioz Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023028
- Title
- Van Diemen's Land
- Author
- James Boyce
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Paper Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1863954244
- ISBN 13
- 9781863954242
- Publisher
- Black Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 155mm x 235mm
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Lectioz Books
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Gloucester, New South Wales
About Lectioz Books
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