In the 1870s, as Port Arthur penal settlement was closing, someone photographed the remaining convicts. Those photographs survived. This book reproduces them — the actual faces of men transported to Van Diemen's Land from Britain and Ireland between the 1820s and the 1850s. Not paintings, not drawings, not reconstructions — photographs. You are looking at the real people.
Nicholas Shakespeare — novelist and biographer of Bruce Chatwin — came to Tasmania on holiday, found a house on an east coast beach near Swansea, and decided on the spot that this was where he wanted to live. He didn't yet know that his ancestor was Anthony Fenn Kemp — the corrupt, colourful and influential figure now known by some as the Father of Tasmania — or that he would find relatives still living on the island.
The catalogue produced to accompany the major 2003 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery exhibition on John Glover — the English landscape painter who emigrated to Tasmania in 1831 at the age of 63 and spent the last eighteen years of his life painting the Tasmanian landscape at his property Patterdale near Evandale. Glover arrived in Van Diemen's Land having already established a considerable reputation as a landscape painter in Britain, where he had exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Richard Flanagan blends memoir and history, tracing his father's WWII imprisonment near Hiroshima through to his own life in Tasmania. Softcover, 2024, 280 pages.

