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Settled by sealers prior to Hobart, this is the story of Tasmania's forgotten frontier - the north east coast and islands and the pioneers who braved the isolation to create the first permanent settlements in this remote corner of the state.
Rare, out-of-print 2001 TMAG first edition. Numbered special limited edition (one of only 500 copies), hand-signed by the Director. Essential Tasmanian natural history reference.
Between 1825 and 1831, close to 200 British colonists and around 1,000 Aboriginal Tasmanians died violently in what became known as the Black War — the most intense and sustained frontier conflict in Australian history. Nicholas Clements takes a different approach to this history from most accounts.
The Cotton Papers presents the writings and drawings of William Jackson Cotton, compiled and introduced by Jane Cooper, with a prologue by historian Henry Reynolds and notes by historian Nick Clements. The material is presented as Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology and history handed down through five generations of the Cotton family, who settled on Tasmania's East Coast in the 1820s.
![The Black War – Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Nicholas Clements | 2014 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/black-war-5Io7Zy.png "The Black War – Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Nicholas Clements | 2014 [SC]")
