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A scarce 8-page vintage regional pamphlet detailing the military outpost and convict "dog line" at Eaglehawk Neck.
The Australasia sailed from Dublin in May 1849 carrying 200 female convicts, many from the western counties of Ireland where the effects of the Great Famine were still being felt, and anchored in the Derwent River on 28 September 1849. Rather than landing immediately, the women typically spent a further six months moored on the river under the probation system, before being hired out into service across the colony.
![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 collection of letters, petitions and other manuscripts relating to Van Diemen's Land between 1808 and 1845, transcribed by Eustace FitzSymonds and published by Sullivan's Cove, Hobart in 1980, with a number of original document leaves reproduced in facsimile.
![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-vdl-sc-fadedcover-mP4Jub.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]")
John Thompson's detailed history of Bell's Line of Road — the convict-built road surveyed and constructed through the Tasmanian Midlands between 1820 and 1824, connecting the Derwent River at New Norfolk northward through the Central Midlands to St Peter's Pass near the present-day township of Oatlands.
The definitive biographical history of Australia's most infamous convict cannibal and bushranger, Alexander Pearce. A meticulously researched account of the brutal 1822 Sarah Island escapes by Dan Sprod, complete in its original Cat & Fiddle Press dust jacket.
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay with the First Fleet, with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, compiled from authentic papers. First published in 1789, shortly after the events it describes, this account was among the earliest published records of the founding of the British colony at Sydney Cove in 1788. This is a 1982 reprint.
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