From Fields of Stone
Added: Jun 6, 2026
The history of female convict Nappy King in famine Ireland & colonial Tasmania.
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![The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-and-the-compass-P6snPf.png "The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]")
The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]
Added: Apr 17, 2026
James Meehan was sentenced at 26 for his role in an uprising against British rule in Ireland and arrived in Australia in 1800 as a convict servant to English explorer Charles Grimes. Through talent and persistence he rose to become Acting Surveyor General of the New South Wales colony, working under five governors from 1800 to 1822.
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![William Buelow Gould – Convict Artist of Van Diemen's Land | Garry Darby | 1980 [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/william-buelow-gould-hcdj-G15ZCT.png "William Buelow Gould – Convict Artist of Van Diemen's Land | Garry Darby | 1980 [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
William Buelow Gould – Convict Artist of Van Diemen's Land | Garry Darby | 1980 [USED – HCDJ – Good]
Added: Jul 15, 2026
The real William Buelow Gould — the convict artist who became the protagonist of Richard Flanagan's second novel Gould's Book of Fish. Gould was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1827 at the age of 24. He served time at Macquarie Harbour — the brutal penal station at Sarah Island on the west coast — where he painted fish specimens for the colonial surgeon.
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![A Looking-Glass for Tasmania – Letters, Petitions and Manuscripts from Van Diemen's Land 1808–1845 | Eustace FitzSymonds | 1980 | Numbered 92/400 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/looking-glass-for-tasmania-fitzsymonds-gkC0Fm.png "A Looking-Glass for Tasmania – Letters, Petitions and Manuscripts from Van Diemen's Land 1808–1845 | Eustace FitzSymonds | 1980 | Numbered 92/400 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]")
![A Road in Van Diemen's Land – The Convict-Built Bell's Line of Road from the Derwent River to St Peter's Pass 1820–1824 | John Thompson | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/a-road-in-van-diemens-land-softcover-FC7RMT.png "A Road in Van Diemen's Land – The Convict-Built Bell's Line of Road from the Derwent River to St Peter's Pass 1820–1824 | John Thompson | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
