A collection of petitions, memorials and letters from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land, gathered and transcribed by Eustace FitzSymonds from original documents held in colonial archives, with numerous pages reproduced in facsimile directly from the manuscripts. The documents are the voices of the convict system itself — petitions for mercy, memorials requesting tickets of leave, letters of complaint and protest, correspondence between convicts and colonial administrators.
Utilising vivid artwork, stories, unique knitting designs and photographs, the authors transport you to Hobart's Mount Wellington, providing knitting patterns that can be recreated.
Mountain Stories is a collection of over 50 tales of the pioneering bush men who worked and lived in one of Tasmania's remotest regions, the arc of country from Great Lake west to the Vale of Belvoir near Cradle Mountain.
Mountain Stories: Echoes from the Tasmanian High Country (Volume 2) by Simon Cubit, available new, offers a collection of oral histories from the Western Tiers and Central Plateau. As a standalone volume that does not require reading the out-of-print first book, this 290-page softcover captures the lives of the mountain men and heritage huts.
A presentation copy of Mr Punch in Tasmania - colonial politics in cartoons 1866-1879 - signed by the publisher Dan Sprod of Blubber Head Press with an inscription to the previous owner.
![Mortmain – Facsimile Collection of Convict Petitions and Letters from Van Diemen's Land | Eustace FitzSymonds | 1977 | Limited Edition [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/mortmain-gN9il9.png "Mortmain – Facsimile Collection of Convict Petitions and Letters from Van Diemen's Land | Eustace FitzSymonds | 1977 | Limited Edition [USED – HCDJ]")
