Convicts
Books covering Tasmania's convict era – transportation, penal settlements such as Port Arthur and Sarah Island, convict ships and records, and the individual stories of convicts sent to Van Diemen's Land. A well-used section for family historians researching convict ancestors, as well as general readers interested in this defining chapter of Tasmania's past.
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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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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
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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The Commandants
The tyrants who ruled Norfolk Island when it was a convict settlement.
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The Convict Letter Writer
The extraordinary story of a woman's journey from convict maid in Campbell Town to prosperity, status and wealth on the other side of the world.
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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]")
![Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders – Volume 1: New Frontiers 1803–1821 | Alex Graeme-Evans | 1994 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/tasmanian-rogues-and-absconders-one-Rbj3Rz.png "Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders – Volume 1: New Frontiers 1803–1821 | Alex Graeme-Evans | 1994 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Very Good]")
![Ten Rogues – Convict Schemers, a Stolen Brig and an Escape from Van Diemen's Land | Peter Grose | 2020 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/ten-rogues-y1TrFY.png "Ten Rogues – Convict Schemers, a Stolen Brig and an Escape from Van Diemen's Land | Peter Grose | 2020 [SC]")
![Thanks a Lot, Guv! - eight convict stories, including Isaac "Ikey" Solomon, believed the real-life inspiration for Dickens' Fagin | T Garth Hyland | 2004 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/thanks-a-lot-gov-cHAlBG.png "Thanks a Lot, Guv! - eight convict stories, including Isaac \"Ikey\" Solomon, believed the real-life inspiration for Dickens' Fagin | T Garth Hyland | 2004 [USED – SC]")
![The Convict Days of Port Arthur – Illustrated with 19th Century Photographs by J.W. Beattie | 1990 [USED – SC – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-days-of-port-arthur-yGXqxf.png "The Convict Days of Port Arthur – Illustrated with 19th Century Photographs by J.W. Beattie | 1990 [USED – SC – Good]")
![The Convict Probation System – Van Diemen's Land 1839–1854 | Ian Brand & Michael Sprod | 1990 [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-probation-system-uf5fde.png "The Convict Probation System – Van Diemen's Land 1839–1854 | Ian Brand & Michael Sprod | 1990 [USED – HCDJ – Good]")