Steps to the Scaffold - The Untold Story of Tasmania's Black Bushrangers - Robert Cox

Steps to the Scaffold traces the campaigns of Tasmania's Aboriginal bushrangers - among them Musquito, Black Tom Birch, Black Jack, Black Dick, Pevay and Timmy - through the lead-up to the Black War of 1826-31 and its individual figures' own stories. Robert Cox covers Musquito's earlier work for Lieutenant-Governor Sorell before his break with the colony, Black Tom Birch's campaign through southeastern Tasmania after leaving the Hobart family that had raised him, Pevay and Timmy's executions in Melbourne, and Trucanini's later murder trial and acquittal in Victoria. Maps chart the bushrangers' attacks across eastern Tasmania, the Bass Strait islands and southern Victoria, with a full index of names and bibliography.

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BOOK DETAILS

• Published: 2004 by Cornhill Publishing. Now out of print.
• Format: softcover
• Pages: 169, indexed

CONDITION

Used but generally good condition. Owner's details written in the front.

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