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This Folio Society volume presents Steven Pinker’s foundational work on linguistics and cognitive science, The Language Instinct. The text argues that language is a human biological adaptation rather than a cultural creation, blending cognitive neurobiology with evolutionary anthropology.
![The Last Ladies – Female Convicts Transported on the Duchess of Northumberland 1852–1853 | Christine Woods | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-last-ladies-PvDJdo.png "The Last Ladies – Female Convicts Transported on the Duchess of Northumberland 1852–1853 | Christine Woods | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
A history of the female convicts transported from England to Van Diemen's Land aboard the Duchess of Northumberland in 1852–1853 — the last convict ship to bring female prisoners to Tasmania before transportation to the colony ended. The book documents the women themselves — who they were, what brought them to transportation, and what happened to them after arrival in a colony where convict transportation was already winding down.
Little more than 70 years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.
When he died in 1938, Captain William McKillop was recognised as probably the last surviving master mariner who had served on board an Australasian sail whaler. This book publishes Captain McKillop's memoirs for the first time, bringing to life the last decades of whaling and seagoing trading voyages under sail in Australasia.
Whaling off Tasmania and southern New Zealand as described by Captain William McKillop (1865–1938). Covers McKillop's early life and sealing in New Zealand, whaling voyages out of New Zealand and Tasmania aboard vessels including the Waterwitch, Sapphire and Alaska, incidents from his time at sea, profiles of notable Hobart whalemen, a section on whale species, his later years as a merchant mariner, and a biographical appendix with family tree and obituary.
