Robbins Island Saga - History of a Bass Strait island, Pauline Buckby

Robbins Island, off Tasmania's north-west coast in Bass Strait, is the state's seventh largest island and its largest privately owned one. Once home to the Parperloihener band of Tasmanian Aboriginal people, it was used from the 1850s for wool grazing, leased to William B. Reid from 1873, and purchased by the Holyman family — also connected to nearby Circular Head — in 1916 for sheep husbandry. The Hammond family has owned the island since 1961, and their descendants continue to run cattle there today, still using the traditional method of walking stock across tidal sand channels at low tide. Pauline Buckby, also author of Around Circular Head and The Legends of Hunter Island (both also in our stock), tells the island's history here, with a loose fold-out map.

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BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover book
• Published 1988. Now out of print.
• 186-pages plus loose fold-out map
• Illustrated with black/white photos
• Approximate size 15cm wide x 21 cm tall

CONDITION

Used but generally very good condition.

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