![The Gatenby Saga – Andrew Gatenby of Barton and His Descendants, Pennyroyal Creek Tasmania | Bacon & Gatenby | 2021 [USED – HC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/Gatenby-Saga-bKyJjK.png "The Gatenby Saga – Andrew Gatenby of Barton and His Descendants, Pennyroyal Creek Tasmania | Bacon & Gatenby | 2021 [USED – HC – Out of Print]")
The story of Andrew Gatenby, who emigrated from Wales in the 1820s and settled in Tasmania's Midlands district. He established the farm Barton and built the Pennyroyal Mill on Pennyroyal Creek, and the book traces his life and that of his descendants across nearly a century, drawn from a unique family archive of diaries, letters and documents.
The General examines the two visits Bruny d'Entrecasteaux's expedition made to Tasmanian waters, in the autumn of 1792 and the summer of 1793, as part of France's 1791 mission to the Western Pacific to search for the missing explorer La Pérouse and carry out a wider programme of scientific work.
Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness.
