This is the first detailed examination of land alienation and land use by white settlers in an Australian colony. It treats the first decades of settlement in V

Author's copy. Printed, with MS. corrections and annotations by the author. Handwriting identical with that in a letter from West to Edward Wise, 5 June 1864 in

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