Van Diemen's Land

James Boyce

Van Diemen's Land
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Black Inc.
Country
Australia
Published
15 June 2010
Pages
400
ISBN
9781863954914

Van Diemen’s Land

James Boyce

Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen’s Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.

In Van Diemen’s Land, James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon settled away from the towns, dressing in kangaroo-skin and living off the land. Behind the official attempt to create a Little England was another story of adaptation, in which the poor, the exiled and the criminal made a new home in a strange land. This is their story, the story of Van Diemen’s Land.

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