OUT of PRINT

A photographic journey behind the closed doors of Tasmania's finest private colonial estates.

This is perhaps the only extant diary ever written during the Australian penal era whilst its convict writer was imprisoned. John Ward, writing whilst incarcerated on Norfolk Island but formerly a groom to an officer gentleman, tells a story of thwarted love that he claims led him to a life of crime including theft, sexual assault and more. In telling the candid story of his downfall he exposes his own ruthlessness and lack of empathy. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

"Dear Cousin - The Reiby(sic) Letters" is a compilation of 22 letters of renowned female convict and subsequently successful Van Diemen's Land business woman Mary Reibey, her children and their descendants written between 1792 and 1901.

Destroyer Man is the naval and World War Two memoir of Commander John Alliston of HMS Decoy and HMAS Warramunga; after the war, the author and his wife Eleanor moved to Three Hummock Island in Bass Strait off the coast of North West Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.