In the 1870s, as Port Arthur penal settlement was closing, someone photographed the remaining convicts. Those photographs survived. This book reproduces them — the actual faces of men transported to Van Diemen's Land from Britain and Ireland between the 1820s and the 1850s. Not paintings, not drawings, not reconstructions — photographs. You are looking at the real people.
Edwin Barnard's text places each man in context — who he was, where he came from, what he was convicted of, and what became of him at Port Arthur. The photographs themselves do what no written history can: they make the convict era immediate and human in a way that is genuinely arresting.
At 224 indexed pages with black and white photographs throughout, this is one of the most powerful books in Australian colonial history.
Out of print since publication.
BOOK DETAILS
- Softcover.
- 224 pages, indexed.
- Black and white photographs throughout.
- Published 2010. Out of print.
CONDITION
Used, generally good condition.
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![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]")
![Colonial Life in Tasmania – Fifty Years of Photography 1855–1905 | Allan Sierp | 1976 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/colonial-life-in-tasmania-6jYd1p.png "Colonial Life in Tasmania – Fifty Years of Photography 1855–1905 | Allan Sierp | 1976 [USED – HCDJ]")
![Port Arthur Railway Across the Tasman Peninsula – Australia's First Railway | William A. Bayley | 1971 [USED – SC – Out of Print – Reprint]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/port-arthur-railway-across-tasman-peninsula-9zACJI.png "Port Arthur Railway Across the Tasman Peninsula – Australia's First Railway | William A. Bayley | 1971 [USED – SC – Out of Print – Reprint]")
![Design for Convicts – An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era | James Semple Kerr | 1984 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/design-for-convicts-zh4FYq.png "Design for Convicts – An Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies During the Transportation Era | James Semple Kerr | 1984 [USED – HCDJ]")
![Convict Places – A Guide to Tasmanian Convict Heritage Sites | Michael Nash | 2020 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/xctmp8Y7GrU.png "Convict Places – A Guide to Tasmanian Convict Heritage Sites | Michael Nash | 2020 [NEW – SC]")
