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[1] ALEXANDER, Alison A Mortal Flame: Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australian Romance Writer, 1874-1969. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1994. xii, 276pp, 55 illus, bibliography, index. Soft covers. #4381 $A8.00 |
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[2] Mickleborough, Leonie. William Sorell in Van Diemen's Land. Lieutenant-Governor 1817-1824. A Golden Age? Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2004. viii, 168pp, frontis & 8pp illus. Soft covers. ***The first in-depth examination of the administration of Tasmania's third governor, which tests the claim of Sorell's contemporary supporters that he presided over the ‘Golden Age’ of Van Diemen's Land and assesses his character, both public and private. #17601 $A10.00 |
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[3] PLOMLEY, N.J.B. A Word List of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages. Author & Government of Tasmania: Launceston, 1976. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. 486pp. Cloth with dustwrapper. A new copy, but not signed as called for because at the time of publication only a portion of the print-run was signed, for reasons best known to the publisher. The author is now deceased. ***Gathers together all of the known 19th century material on the languages of the Tasmanian tribes. #4352 $A44.00 |
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[4] PLOMLEY, N.J.B. Weep in Silence: a history of the Flinders Island Aboriginal Settlement with the Flinders Island Journal of George Augustus Robinson 1835-1839. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1987. 1500 copies. 1034pp, frontis, 33 plates (6 in colour, including 4 maps), contemporary coloured map of the settlement on eps. Original buckram, gilt decoration on the upper board, with dustwrapper. ***Completes the publication of Robinson's Van Diemen's Land journals begun in Friendly Mission (1966) - with much additional material. #4350 $A95.00 |
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[5] Robinson, James William (edited by Michael Nash). Captain Robinson. The reminiscences of a Tasmanian Master Mariner: James William Robinson 1824-1906. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2009. 1st edition. 500 numbered copies. 240x165mm. x, 178pp, frontis portrait, colour and b&w illustrations. Case-bound with dustwrapper. ***Written in retirement in 1904, Robinson's ‘tough account of a rough life’ has never before been published. The Captain worked mainly in the pelagic whaling industry out of Hobart, but also carried a variety of cargoes to all the Australasian colonies, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, and to gold-rush California. He undertook the only Australian sealing voyage to subantarctic Heard Island, and collected guano off the Queensland coast. Ashore, he established and operated mines in both Victoria (gold) and Tasmania (tin). Captain Robinson is a vivid account of an extraordinarily varied working life. #26088 $A55.00 |
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[6] ROE, Michael. An Imperial Disaster: the wreck of George the Third. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2006. 750 copies; x, 294pp, coloured frontis, b&w illus. Cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. ***On 12 April 1835 the convict transport George the Third, with a cargo of over 200 prisoners, entered D’Entrecasteaux Channel in Van Diemen’s Land after a four-month voyage from England. That night it struck a submerged rock and became a total wreck. The death toll was 133, all but six of whom were convicts. Almost half the convicts who died were in hospital suffering scurvy, and had little chance of escape from the rapid flooding of the ship’s lower reaches. The circumstances of most of the other deaths never became clear, but one certain fact was that the ship’s military guard restrained the surviving convicts from coming onto deck, and that two men were shot dead in this exercise. The repercussions of this event were felt in both the colony and the mother country – it was indeed an imperial disaster. Official voices at the time tended to present the tragedy as an ‘unavoidable accident’, but Michael Roe argues that the wreck was not a matter of bad fortune; it was a consequence of the neglectful policies of the imperial and Vandiemonian governments. #20723 $A50.00 |
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[7] SPROD, Dan (ed). Van Diemen's Land Revealed: Flinders and Bass and their circumnavigation of the island in the Colonial Sloop Norfolk 1798-1799. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2009. 750 copies only. Large 8vo. x, 256pp; frontis portraits, 12pp b&w illustrations, 3 charts folded in pocket at end. Case-bound with dustwrapper. ***Matthew Flinders and George Bass have been given considerable recognition in publications relating to their lives and achievements. One major exploit - their successful circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land in 1798 and 1799 in the sloop Norfolk, which established beyond doubt the existence of Bass Strait and that Van Diemen’s Land was an island - has been overlooked to the extent that no separate work brings together source materials relating to the voyage. Van Diemen's Land Revealed is compiled to correct this deficiency, and presents original accounts written by the two adventurers together with commentary, notes and references, a bibliography and index. The account includes the earlier, and progressive, voyages by Bass from Sydney Cove to Western Port (in Tom Thumb I & II and in a whaleboat) and of Flinders to the wreck of the Sydney Cove. A facsimile of Flinders' most rare pamphlet 'Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen’s Land, on Bass’s Strait and its Islands, and on part of the Coasts of New South Wales', published in London in 1801 - together with the three important charts which were intended to accompany the pamphlet - is also reproduced. #27048 $A77.00 |
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[8] SPROD, Dan. The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and his turbulent life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land, 1780-1841. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2001. 1000 copies, case-bound in buckram, with illustrated dustwrapper. 240x176mm. xiv, 718pp, 9 colour & 56 b/w illustrations, 5 maps. ***Includes the full text of Jorgenson's hitherto unpublished account of the 'revolution' in Iceland in 1809, in which he was briefly installed as 'Protector' - and which was the source of the name by which he is known to Tasmania history - the 'Convict King'. Jorgenson's adventurous life - and his often unreliable accounting of it - are examined in meticulous detail. #12418 $A70.00 |
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