The Convicts' Good Parson – The Reverend George Eastman in Van Diemen's Land 1844–1870 | Terence George Eastman & Pamela Tyson | 2019 [NEW – SC]

The biography of the Reverend George Eastman — a Church of England clergyman who served for 26 years in parishes across Van Diemen's Land during the final decades of the transportation era, and whose final posting was to Port Arthur.

Eastman took an unfashionable view for his time: that convicts could be reformed, and that religious instruction, education and practical training were the means to achieve it. His approach put him at odds with a system designed primarily for punishment and deterrence, but he pursued it throughout his career in some of the colony's most demanding postings.

Written by his descendants Terence George Eastman and Pamela Tyson, the biography draws on family records, church archives and colonial documents to reconstruct Eastman's ministry in Van Diemen's Land.

At 124 pages with colour and black and white illustrations, this is both a personal biography and a window into the religious and institutional life of the convict colony in its later years.

BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover.
• 124 pages.
• Colour and black & white illustrations.
• Published 2019.

CONDITION

New.

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