The Diemen Alexander
The Diemen Alexander

Author: Marie Heitz

Publisher: Clan Destine Press

Published: 2023-11-01

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1922904422

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'The Diemen Alexander is Jurassic Park meets ET in the best possible way. It's fast paced, thrilling, funny, and fantastical. I loved it.' - Alison Goodman When tender-hearted geeky teenage Luke rescues a lizard in a thunderstorm on kunanyi, he has no idea it will have a mind of its own. Or eat quite so much. Or grow so fast. Or resemble Tasmania's lost dinosaur. Suddenly Alexander the lizard becomes an immensely valuable object, sought by cold-blooded and violent people. Luke's brains and compassion won't be enough to protect Alexander - something his anarchic sister Gatta could have told him - not even with help from the fearsome Shona, paleogeologist and AFLW Goddess. Meanwhile Alexander - teeth, claws and appetite - is growing, changing and learning to communicate. Can Luke find his own ferocity and ruthlessness to counter the odds stacked against them? A sci-fi romp through present-day Hobart - featuring zoology, comparative anatomy and venture capitalism - that asks deeper questions about human responsibility towards animals, the earth and each other, and the truth that power goes to the person most prepared to wield it. The Diemen Alexander is an adventure full of narrow escapes and fail-to-escapes, an XH Holden ute, shameful misuse of really excellent whisky, and a distressing amount of fast food.

Hell's Gates
Hell's Gates

Author: Paul Collins

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1742733646

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Continue, and individual motives arise: revenge, greed, overblown pride ...

Tasmania's Convicts
Tasmania's Convicts

Author: Alison Alexander

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1459603907

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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.

Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land

Author: Murray Johnson

Publisher: UNSW Press

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 1742241891

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The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen’s Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This broad-ranging book is a comprehensive and critical account of that epic survival up to the present day. Starting from antiquity, the book examines the devastating arrival of Europeans and subsequent colonisation, warfare and exile. It emphasises the regionalism and separateness, a consistent feature of Aboriginal life since time immemorial that has led to the distinct identities we see in the present, including the unique place of the islanders of Bass Strait. Carefully researched, using the findings of archaeologists and extensive documentary evidence, some only recently uncovered, this important book fills a long-time gap in Tasmanian history.

Van Diemen's Women
Van Diemen's Women

Author: Joan Kavanagh

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0750966661

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On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted from death, and Margaret Butler, sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing potatoes in Carlow. Using original records, this study reveals the reality of transportation, together with the legacy left by these women in Tasmania and beyond, and shows that perhaps, for some, this Draconian punishment was, in fact, a life-saving measure.