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Francis and Anna Maria Cotton, English Quakers, emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1828 with their young family and friend Dr George Fordyce Story, settling at Kelvedon, on the East Coast near Swansea. This book, compiled by a descendant, tells the family's story from 1828 to 1885, drawing on their letters and papers, including correspondence with son-in-law Joseph Benson Mather.

Kate Legge's biography of Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle — the Austrian immigrant and the Tasmanian woman who together fought to protect Cradle Mountain and establish it as a national park for all Australians. Weindorfer grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; Kate Cowle was climbing Tasmanian mountains when few women did. When they stood on Cradle Mountain's summit together in January 1910, they imagined a national park.

Deny King spent 55 years living self-sufficiently at Melaleuca in Tasmania's remote South West wilderness – as a tin miner, naturalist, painter and ornithologist. He played a crucial role in saving the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot, had a fossil banksia species named in his honour, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to conservation. This is his extraordinary story.

A biography of Reverend Robert Knopwood - Van Diemen's Land's first colonial chaplain, magistrate, and diarist, whose journal remains a key record of early Hobart. By Geoffrey Stephens.