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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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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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The Master of Hell’s Gates See details
The Master of Hell’s Gates
Captain William Kinghorne (1796 - 1878) navigated some of the most treacherous waters in the world.
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The Men That God Forgot - hardcover See details
The Men That God Forgot - hardcover
The Men That God Forgot is a Tasmanian historical novel based on the true hell of a Van Diemen's Land convict camp on Sarah Island, and ten men who made a desperate bid for freedom.
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The Men That God Forgot - softcover [Fiction] See details
The Men That God Forgot - softcover [Fiction]

Historical fiction based on the real hell of a Van Diemen's convict camp and ten men who made a desperate bid for freedom.

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The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price - A voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800 See details
The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price - A voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800

John Washington Price was just 21, and recently graduated from Dublin's College of Surgeons, when he sailed as ship's surgeon aboard the transport Minerva from Cork to Sydney in 1799, carrying 200 convicts. Many were United Irishmen transported for their role in the 1798 Rebellion, including the rebel leader General Joseph Holt.

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The Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour - outline of history |Hans Julen|Signed| See details
The Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour - outline of history |Hans Julen|Signed|

This outline of the history of the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement covers its founding on Sarah Island in 1822 as a place of banishment for the colony's most difficult convicts, its eleven-year reputation as one of the harshest penal settlements in the Australian colonies, and notable escapes including those of Matthew Brady and Alexander Pearce.

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The Port Arthur Coal Mines 1833 - 1877 See details
The Port Arthur Coal Mines 1833 - 1877
A history of the coal mines at Port Arthur on Tasmania's Tasman Peninsula.
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The Remarkable Mrs Reibey See details
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
A biography of colonial Australia's most powerful woman, Mary Reibey in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.
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The Second Fleet – Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790 | Michael Flynn | 1993 | Numbered 937/1250 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print] See details
The Second Fleet – Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790 | Michael Flynn | 1993 | Numbered 937/1250 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

Michael Flynn's comprehensive history of the Second Fleet — the convoy of six ships that transported convicts to New South Wales in 1790, carrying what became known as one of the most brutal and deadly voyages in the history of convict transportation to Australia. The Second Fleet was operated by private contractors rather than the Royal Navy, and the conditions aboard were catastrophic.

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The Sherburds See details
The Sherburds
A history of the Sherburds - a family of Van Diemen's Land pioneers, whalers and master mariners descended from convicts and Norfolk Island settlers.
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The Ship That Never Was - used See details
The Ship That Never Was - used
The greatest escape story of Van Diemen's Land's colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller.
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