A history of Maria Island's recent past structured around four key touchstones.
Martin Cash's personal narrative of his life as a bushranger in Van Diemen's Land — the 12th impression of the account first published in 1870, ghostwritten by fellow convict James Lester Burke. Cash was an Irish convict from County Wexford who twice escaped from Port Arthur and led an eight-month bushranging spree with Kavanagh and Jones through 1843, robbing mail coaches, homesteads and inns across Van Diemen's Land.
A biography / history of one of the most notorious early Tasmanian bushrangers.
A collection of petitions, memorials and letters from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land, gathered and transcribed by Eustace FitzSymonds from original documents held in colonial archives, with numerous pages reproduced in facsimile directly from the manuscripts. The documents are the voices of the convict system itself — petitions for mercy, memorials requesting tickets of leave, letters of complaint and protest, correspondence between convicts and colonial administrators.

