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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] See details
The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]
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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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Some Notes on Maria Island and its Penal Settlements See details
Some Notes on Maria Island and its Penal Settlements
A short history of the convict settlements on Maria Island, just a little way off the East Coast of Tasmania.
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Sullivan Bay See details
Sullivan Bay
How the convict settlement intended for Port Phillip was moved to Van Diemen's Land.
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Tasmania v. British Empire See details
Tasmania v. British Empire

A history of the battle to end convict transportation from Britain to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.

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Tasmania's Convicts - hardcover See details
Tasmania's Convicts - hardcover
While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history, in Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander debates whether the convict past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania.
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Tasmania's Convicts – How Felons Built a Free Society | Alison Alexander | 2014 [NEW – SC] See details
Tasmania's Convicts – How Felons Built a Free Society | Alison Alexander | 2014 [NEW – SC]

Alison Alexander's accessible history of Tasmania's convict era — covering the transportation system, the convicts who came, the work they did, and how Van Diemen's Land transformed from a penal colony into a free society over the course of the 19th century.

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Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders – Volume 1: New Frontiers 1803–1821 | Alex Graeme-Evans | 1994 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Very Good] See details
Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders – Volume 1: New Frontiers 1803–1821 | Alex Graeme-Evans | 1994 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Very Good]

Alex Graeme-Evans's history of the rogues, absconders and escapees of Van Diemen's Land in its earliest years — covering the period from the founding of the colony in 1803 through to 1821. This is Volume 1 of a trilogy. Other volumes are also available from The Book Cellar.

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Ten Rogues – Convict Schemers, a Stolen Brig and an Escape from Van Diemen's Land | Peter Grose | 2020 [SC] See details
Ten Rogues – Convict Schemers, a Stolen Brig and an Escape from Van Diemen's Land | Peter Grose | 2020 [SC]

The true story of ten convicts who escaped from Sarah Island — the Macquarie Harbour penal station on Tasmania's remote west coast, regarded as the most brutal of Van Diemen's Land's convict establishments — by stealing the brig they had helped to build, and sailing it across the Pacific Ocean to Chile without a map or a chronometer. The ringleader was Jimmy Porter, a resourceful and audacious schemer whose account of the escape became one of the most remarkable documents of the convict era.

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Thanks a lot, Guv! See details
Thanks a lot, Guv!
Thanks a Lot, Guv! tells the stories of eight convicts, from trial in England to detention and freedom in Van Diemen's Land - John Ireland Hyland & Harriet James, James Britton, Sophia & James Charles Gunyon, William Heard, Isaac Ikey and Ann Solomon.
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The Australian Convict Recipe Book See details
The Australian Convict Recipe Book
This little cookbook includes 150 practical recipes from colonial Tasmanian times plus historical photographs, convict rules and rations and the unabridged story of Bessie Baldwin, convict cook to Governor Sir John Franklin.
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The Capture of The Frederick Macquarie Harbour Van Diemen's Land 1834 See details
The Capture of The Frederick Macquarie Harbour Van Diemen's Land 1834

On 14 January 1834, the last ship built at the closing Macquarie Harbour penal station on Sarah Island — the brig Frederick — was seized by ten convicts led by James Porter, a former sailor with previous experience in Chile. Using only dead reckoning, with no charts or chronometer, they sailed the untested vessel roughly 13,000 km across the Pacific to Chile, before scuttling her off the coast and reaching Valdivia, where they lived under assumed identities as shipwrecked sailors for two years.

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