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Thirty-three Years in Tasmania and Victoria
Chapter IV; The Aborigines of Tasmania - numbers & appearance, polygyny, numbers of wives among Oyster Bay tribe in 1821, weapons, hunting methods (for kangaroo, possum), use of opossum skins, corroborees - body decoration, kangaroo skin rugs as drums; spearing for sting ray at Sweet Water Bay; tracking ability; contact with Europeans, 1803; transportation of Mosquito to Tasmania, 1818; Chapter IX; Colonists vs. natives - Arthurs relations with natives; the Black War, work of G.A. Robinson, quotes Robinsons narrative of his mission, & sermon given by Aboriginal youth Thomas Brune 1838; Chapter XVIII; Aborigines of Victoria comments on setting up of reserves, describes Buntingdale Mission, population figures (Barrabool Hill tribe, 1837 & 1853), treatment of newborn child, manufacture of grass baskets, body decorations, appearance, spear ordeal, gives 70 items of vocabulary used by Colac tribe.
Tasmania's Convicts
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land' it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of dozens of convicts and their families' she uncovers stories of success' failure' and everything in between. While some suffered harsh conditions' most served their time and were freed' becoming ordinary and peaceful citizens. Yet over the decades' a terrible stigma became associated with the convicts' and they and the whole colony went to extraordinary lengths to hide it. The majority of Tasmanians today have convict ancestry' whether they know it or not. While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history' Alison Alexander debates whether the convict past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania.
A History of Tasmania
This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late eighteenth century, through to the modern day. By presenting the perspectives of both Indigenous Tasmanians and British settlers, author Henry Reynolds provides an original and engaging exploration of these first fraught encounters. Utilising key themes to bind his narrative, Reynolds explores how geography created a unique economic and migratory history for Tasmania, quite separate from the mainland experience. He offers an astute analysis of the island's economic and demographic reality, by noting that this facilitated the survival of a rich heritage of colonial architecture unique in Australia, and allowed the resident population to foster a powerful web of kinship. Reynolds' remarkable capacity to empathise with the characters of his chronicle makes this a powerful, engaging and moving account of Tasmania's unique position within Australian history.
Early Tasmania
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Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania
Distribution and Range . . . 142 The Tasmanian Trout Fishery 153 Population Dynamics of Tench 163 Conservation Notes 167 Bibliography . . . . . . . . 168 VII. Littoral Biogeography by A. J. DARTNALL 171 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 The Maugean Marine Province. . . . . . 175 Distribution Patterns of some Tasmanian Marine Animals 178 Conclusions. . . . 190 Acknowledgements 191 Bibliography . . . 191 VIII. The Zoogeography and Evolution of Tasmanian Oligochaeta by B. G. M. JAMIESON. . 195 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 The Australian Region: A World Perspective 198 Earthworms and Continental Drift. . . . . 206 Tasmanian Earthworms - Relationships with the Australian Fa...
The Aborigines of Tasmania's Furneaux Group
A composite of accounts of whaling and sealing, including the A.L.Meston essay on 'Half-castes of the Furneaux Group'. They came from across the globe in tall ships, in billowing sails, iconic of an era hell-bent on supplying the colonies and the giant cities of the northern hemisphere with their insatiable industrial needs. The many out of print publications to which I have referred, are conservative in their appraisal of the sealing and whaling hey-day of Tasmania, particularly the expansive bays and estuaries of the south and the islands of Bass Strait, the Furneaux Group. But it was the universal expression of the day of those authors, not to paraphrase in any emotional terms, the end result of that period of exploitation.They came, they slaughtered and regarded their new-found paradise as no more than their 'happy hunting-grounds' & moved on...for no other reason than that of the industrial pragmatic...there was nothing left. This publication salvages works otherwise lost to posterity.
Tasmania's Beaumaris Beach Mystery
The mystery of what happened to 26-year-old German tourist Nancy Grunwaldt and 20-year-old Italian tourist Victoria Cafasso remains unsolved two decades later. Nancy disappeared without trace and Victoria was found brutally murdered, stabbed over forty times, on Beaumaris' lonely but beautiful beach.'Tasmania's Beaumaris Beach Mystery' reveals previously unrecorded details of these cases and potentially explosive revelations about the two young tourists' fates in an attempt to answer: What happened to Nancy and Victoria?
