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A collection of essays by Australian and international historians examining George Augustus Robinson's Friendly Mission — the journals Robinson kept during his time among the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land from 1829 to 1834, edited by N.J.B. Plomley and republished in a second edition in 2008.
![Real Tennis in Hobart – The Pioneers | Richard Travers | 2021 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/real-tennis-in-hobart-K1X4Fq.png "Real Tennis in Hobart – The Pioneers | Richard Travers | 2021 [NEW – SC]")
A history of real tennis (also known as royal tennis) in Australia, beginning with the establishment of Australia's first court on Davey Street, Hobart in 1874 by Samuel Smith Travers — the author's ancestor — who went on to write Australia's first treatise on the sport in 1875. Real tennis is the ancient predecessor of modern lawn tennis, played on an enclosed court with an irregular shape and rules that trace back to medieval France and Henry VIII's England.
75 years of forest service in Tasmania.
![Recollections of Life in Van Diemen's Land | William Gates (one of the Canadian Patriots) | George Mackaness (Ed.) | 1961 | Numbered 127/135 | Signed [USED – SC – Parts 1 & 2]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/recollections-life-william-gates-TIgsDo.png "Recollections of Life in Van Diemen's Land | William Gates (one of the Canadian Patriots) | George Mackaness (Ed.) | 1961 | Numbered 127/135 | Signed [USED – SC – Parts 1 & 2]")
One of the most unusual primary sources in Van Diemen's Land history — the first-hand account of William Gates, an American from New York who was transported to Hobart as a political prisoner in 1840. Gates was one of the "Canadian Patriots" — a group of Americans and Canadians who invaded Upper Canada in 1838 in sympathy with the Canadian Rebellions of 1837, supporting those seeking independence from British rule.
![Recollections of North Bruny Island | F. Oliver Gray | 1978 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/recollections-of-north-bruny-island-KNkGtK.png "Recollections of North Bruny Island | F. Oliver Gray | 1978 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
F. Oliver Gray's personal recollections of life on the north end of Bruny Island — the smaller, more pastoral northern section of the island separated from South Bruny by The Neck. North Bruny has a distinct character from the southern wilderness — it is more like farming country, with the community of Dennes Point and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel defining its western shore.
