An oral history of the Franklin River campaign, told through interviews with the people who took part in the blockade and the broader fight to stop the damming of the Franklin River. Where Wild Rivers captured the campaign through Peter Dombrovskis's photographs and Bob Brown's words, UpRiver tells the story from a different angle — the voices of the ordinary people who travelled to South West Tasmania, joined the blockade, and were arrested for it.
A collection of letters written from Van Diemen's Land to Sir William Hooker — director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew — between 1827 and 1849, compiled by T.E. Burns and J.R. Skemp. The correspondents include Ronald Campbell Gunn, Van Diemen's Land's most important colonial botanist; R.W. Lawrence; Jorgen Jorgenson — the extraordinary Dane who briefly became King of Iceland before being transported to Van Diemen's Land (the subject of Dan Sprod's biography The Usurper); and Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1837–1843.
James Boyce's reinterpretation of Van Diemen's Land's early history — arguing that the convicts who arrived in the colony were transformed by the natural world they encountered, actively adapting to their new environment rather than simply enduring it. Almost half of all convicts transported to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land.

