Books on the history and culture of Tasmania's Aboriginal people, covering pre-colonial life, the impact of colonisation, and the ongoing history and culture of the community today.
In the 19th century, European collectors and museum curators cultivated contacts in Van Diemen's Land who could supply them with specimens — not just thylacines and platypuses, but human remains. The belief that Tasmania's original Aboriginal people were a unique race facing extinction drove the European scientific community to scramble for human exhibits, creating a clandestine trade in human bones that reached to the highest levels of colonial society.
This book is about the 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this ground breaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.
Subsequently known in Van Diemen's Land as the conciliator with the Tasmanian aboriginal people, George Robinson first came to the colony as a free settler, and kept a journal of his experiences on the voyage on the Triton. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
The shocking secret history of Sorell in Tasmania - the history behind a Tasmanian Aboriginal massacre, of Charles Routley serial killer, and the activities of bushranger Matthew Brady's gang.
In 1803, William Buckley escaped from a British convict settlement at Port Phillip Bay and disappeared into the Australian bush. He was found 32 years later — barefoot, dressed in animal skins, carrying a spear, and having largely forgotten the English language. In between, he had lived with the Wathaurong people of what is now Victoria.
![A Very Secret Trade – The Dark Story of Gentlemen Anthropological Collectors in Tasmania | Cassandra Pybus | 2024 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/a-very-secret-trade-D96sut.png "A Very Secret Trade – The Dark Story of Gentlemen Anthropological Collectors in Tasmania | Cassandra Pybus | 2024 [NEW – SC]")
![Broken Spear - Black Tom Birch, the Aboriginal Patriot Blamed for Sparking Australia's Bloodiest War | Robert Cox | 2021 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/Broken-spear-t2IwGw.png "Broken Spear - Black Tom Birch, the Aboriginal Patriot Blamed for Sparking Australia's Bloodiest War | Robert Cox | 2021 [NEW – SC]")
![Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/buckleys-chance-zfeIdn.png "Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]")
