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Early Tasmania: Papers Read Before the Royal Society of Tasmania During the Years 1888 to 1899

Early Tasmania: Papers Read Before the Royal Society of Tasmania During the Years 1888 to 1899

James Backhouse Walker

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9353606365
ISBN13: 9789353606367
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step inside early Tasmania as its own witnesses described it. The past feels startlingly close. Early Tasmania brings together James Backhouse Walker's most important papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania between 1888 and 1899, creating a vivid early Tasmania papers collection that still speaks with authority and warmth. These carefully researched Tasmanian history essays trace Van Diemen's Land history from penal beginnings through Tasmanian exploration and settlement, observing how a remote outpost of empire became a distinct community. As a primary source history collection written in the late nineteenth century, it captures voices, assumptions and details that later historians could only reconstruct at a distance, making it an indispensable colonial Australia history book. For readers fascinated by Tasmanian colonial history and the broader story of 19th century Tasmania, Walker's clear, humane prose opens up early Tasmania history with unusual immediacy. The Royal Society of Tasmania papers gathered here illuminate everyday life, belief, conflict and change as the colony took shape. The volume is ideal for Australian history students seeking context direct from a contemporary observer, and a rich resource for family historians tracing ancestors who lived through the colony's formative decades. Its blend of narrative, documentation and reflection will appeal equally to curious general readers and serious collectors of classic Australasian non-fiction. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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