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Quintus Servinton

Author : Henry Savery
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1920897046
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Quintus Servinton written by Henry Savery and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's convict past is never far away in Tasmania, where elegant stone bridges, the Georgian warehouses of Salamanca Place and the eerie ruins of Port Arthur are testimony to the back-breaking work and the hard lives endured by those sentenced to transportation. Quintus Servinton is another reminder of those cruel days. Subtitled "a tale, founded on incidents of real occurrence," the book is a loosely autobiographical story of a wayward fifth son, like Savery. Quintus Servinton (1830) is credited as being the first Australian novel, which, despite its dubious literary merit, gives it unique status. Henry Savery was born in 1791 in Somerset. He arrived in Hobart in 1825, having been sentenced to transportation for forgery. He might be completely unknown today had he not had a penchant for writing. Savery was released from servitude in 1832, having already published his major work. At Port Arthur, guides tell the story that he then sent for his wife, but she had an affair with a magistrate on the boat out, and returned to England, having been rejected by her husband. Savery was entrusted with banking work and tempted to re-offend. He appeared before the magistrate who had seduced his wife and was sent to the notorious penal settlement, Port Arthur, where he died in 1842.

Tailored Tasmania

Author : Alice Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980280050
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Tailored Tasmania written by Alice Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tailored Tasmania is your launch pad for exploring our island like a local. We've packed in secrets on the best places to eat, play, shop and stay to save you hunting for them. Whether you're a local who wants to try a new watering hole or a visitor seeking a tourist trail less travelled, we have far flung stories, recipes direct from our salty seas, a handy guide section plus a pull out map to inspire your own wanderings. We'll show you which wine bars to relax in on a girls' weekend, where to cast a line or how to find those little known cafes you'll never want to leave. We know Tassie well and have discovered gems the locals love to share with you. We want you to love this place as much as we do. We think you will.

For the Term of His Natural Life

Author : Marcus Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Term of His Natural Life written by Marcus Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Place Meaning and Attachment

Author : Dak Kopec
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000038726
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Place Meaning and Attachment written by Dak Kopec and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutions have gripped many countries, leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes of many, the increasingly uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the coercive efforts by the rich, and social uncertainty has led to the romanticizing of the past. Humanity is resilient, but we have a fundamental need for attachment to places, buildings, and objects. This edited volume will explore the different meanings and forms of place attachment and meaning based on our histories and conceptualization of material artifacts. Each chapter examines a varied relationship between a given society and the meaning formed through myth, symbols, and ideologies manifested through diverse forms of material artifacts. Topics of consideration examine place attachment at many scales including at the level of the artifact, human being, building, urban context, and region. We need a better understanding of human relationships to the past, our attachments to the events and places, and to the external influences on our attachments. This understanding will allow for better preservation methods pertaining to important places and buildings, and enhanced social wellbeing for all groups of people. Covering a broad range of international perspectives on place meaning from the United States to Europe, Asia to Russia, and Africa to Australia, this book is an essential read for students, academics, and professionals alike.

Encounters on the Edge

Author : Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994474360
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Encounters on the Edge written by Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Capes Track Visitor Guide

Lonely Planet Tasmania Road Trips

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1760340006
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Tasmania Road Trips written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Tasmania Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering Tasmania by car. Featuring 4 amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, experience Tasmania's magnificent rainforest, wilderness, wildlife and historic towns, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to Tasmania, rent a car, and hit the road! Inside Lonely Planet Tasmania Road Trips: Lavish colour and gorgeous photography throughout Itineraries and planning advice to pick the right tailored routes for your needs and interests Get around easily - easy-to-read, full-colour route maps, detailed directions Insider tips to get around like a local, avoid trouble spots and be safe on the road - local driving rules, parking, toll roads Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Useful features - including Detours, Walking Tours and Link Your Trip Covers Hobart, Launceston, the Tarkine, Cradle Mountain and more eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Tasmania Road Trips is perfect for exploring Tasmania via the road and discovering sights that are more accessible by car. Planning a Tasmania trip sans a car? Lonely Planet Tasmania guide, our most comprehensive guide to Tasmania, is perfect for exploring both top sights and lesser-known gems. There's More in Store for You: See more of Australia's spectacular countryside and have a richer, more authentic experience by exploring Australia by car with Lonely Planet's Australia's Best Trips guide or Outback Australia Road Trips or Coastal Victoria Road Trips. Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet. About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travelers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Complete Guide to Tasmania

Author : Tasmania. Government Railway Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Complete Guide to Tasmania written by Tasmania. Government Railway Department and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Shot of History: Convict Hell

Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1922765376
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book A Shot of History: Convict Hell written by David W. Cameron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. This convict penal settlement located on the isolated primeval rugged west coast of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) quickly gained a reputation as an ‘Earthy Hell’. Colonial historian John West succinctly recorded in 1852: ‘The name Macquarie Harbour is associated exclusively with remembrance of inexpressible depravity, degradation, and woe. Sacred to the genius of torture, Nature concurred with the objects of its separation from the rest of the world, to exhibit some notion of a perfect misery. There, man lost the aspect and the heart of man …. This region is lashed with tempests: the sky is cloudy, and the rain falls more frequently than elsewhere. In its chill and humid climate, animal life is preserved with difficulty; half the goats died in one season, and sheep perished; vegetation, except in its coarsest and most massive forms is situated and precarious …. The passage to this dreary dwelling place was tedious and often dangerous. The prisoners, confined in a narrow space, were tossed for weeks on an agitated sea. As they approached, they beheld a narrow opening chocked with a bar of sand and crossed with peril. This they called Hell’s Gate – not less appropriate to the place than to the character and torment of the inhabitants: beyond they saw impenetrable forests, skirted with an impervious thicket; and beyond still enormous mountains covered with snow, which rose to the clouds like walls of adamant: every object wore the air of rigour, ferocity, and sadness’. This was just the beginning for those sentenced to Macquarie Harbour the barbaric treatment from officials and fellow convicts alike, resulted in Macquarie Harbour representing a true convict hell hole, not only resulting in murder, but in cannibalism by several men in their attempts to escape.

Tasmania's Convicts

Author : Alison Alexander
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459603907
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Tasmania's Convicts written by Alison Alexander and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Europeans in Australia

Author : Alan Atkinson
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 174224243X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Europeans in Australia written by Alan Atkinson and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan Atkinson The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century ‘communications revolution’ Atkinson casts new light on the way Australia first found its place in a ‘global’ world. This volume is more than a story of geography and politics. It describes the way people thought and felt. Throughout the trilogy Atkinson traces subtle and sudden shifts of ‘common imagination’ by analysing the lives of both powerful and ordinary Australians. He sets out the ideas and the imagery that moved and marked the people. This book, like all his work, is grounded in thorough and rigorous scholarship yet imbued with compassion and insight. Written ‘from the inside’, it is – as he says – history ‘caught up with the flesh and memory it describes’. The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history,The Europeans in Australia grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe. Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark’s A History of Australia.

The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens

Author : Steve Harris
Publisher : Melbourne Books
ISBN 13 : 1925556417
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens written by Steve Harris and published by Melbourne Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As engrossing as a novel, this story of the death of childhood in the cradle of the world's mightiest empire, and the atmospheric tale of crime and punishment leading to a sensational murder trial is from another time but implicitly raises questions which remain with us today.Steve Harris' book humanises a most bizarre social experiment and brings out its grotesqueness in dramatic form. The tale is so comprehensively and authentically written that it is a service to Australian and British readers.- Tom Keneally, winner of the Booker Prize and Miles Franklin Award

Exiled

Author : Edwin Barnard
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642277095
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Exiled written by Edwin Barnard and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Port Arthur convict photographs are a truly remarkable survival from Australias colonial past. Taken shortly before the infamous Tasmanian penal settlement closed for good, these images record the faces of men sent to Australia on convict ships between the 1820s and the 1850s. Now, for the first time, they are the subject of a fascinating new book from the National Library of Australia. Through its pages readers will come face to face with some of Australias reluctant pioneers and explore their often extraordinary lives. Using transportation records, trial documents, offi cial correspondence, prison files, local and overseas newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts, the author has pieced together biographies of some of the men and their female partners who found themselves transported to the colonies.

Recovering Convict Lives

Author : Richard Tuffin
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743327838
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Recovering Convict Lives written by Richard Tuffin and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia’s most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2013, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: A Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind – the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards – this book tells their stories. Praise for Recovering Convict Lives 'In this richly illustrated volume readers will be taken on an archaeological tour of a lost world of work, leisure and punishment. A forensic reconstruction of one of Australia’s most iconic buildings, Recovering Convict Lives peels away the layers of time to reveal the hidden history of everyday life in a penal station.' - Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, author of Closing Hell’s Gates 'Recovering Convict Lives is the kind of substantial and significant publication that does justice to one of Australia’s most iconic heritage sites. The authors skillfully combine complex evidence from diverse sources in order to produce a nuanced and detailed account of the experiences of those who lived at the penitentiary. The discussion ranges seamlessly between fine-grained glimpses of individual lives and the global systems and processes that structured local action. Flowing, readable text and abundant illustrations are partnered with ready access to technical archaeological reports provided in an online repository, an elegant solution that allows readers to choose the amount of detail they want. The authors powerfully demonstrate the value of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach and showcase the strengths of historical archaeology as a discipline at the intersection of documentary and non-documentary evidence. Recovering Convict Lives presents some of the "unwritten histories" of Port Arthur - stories of places, spaces and lives that have been not previously seen. This impressive book provides a compelling argument for the need to tell and understand convict stories in order to understand the genesis of modern systems of incarceration.' - Professor Susan Lawrence, author of Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields

Complete Guide to Tasmania

Author : Tasmania. Tourist Dept
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Complete Guide to Tasmania written by Tasmania. Tourist Dept and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australia

Author : Margo Daly
Publisher : Rough Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781843530909
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Australia written by Margo Daly and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fresh journalistic writing and reams of information on what to see and do, this guide takes readers from the big cities to the countryside. Includes candid reviews on restaurants and accommodations for all budgets. 83 maps. Full-color insert. Two-color throughout.

Transcribing Tasmanian Convict Records

Author : Susan Hood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957939431
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Transcribing Tasmanian Convict Records written by Susan Hood and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most people who have an interest in a convict are likely to be able to obtain a conduct record, description list, indent, appropriation list, plus an assignment list or muster roll. These are the records that are the focus of this publication." --p. 7.

The Road to McCarthy

Author : Pete McCarthy
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780007162130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Road to McCarthy written by Pete McCarthy and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in his bestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar with your name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up, his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventure take him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in search of his Irish roots -- from Morocco, where he tracks down the unlikely chief of the McCarthy clan, to New York, and finally to remote Mc-Carthy, Alaska. The Road to McCarthy is a quixotic and anything-but- typical Irish odyssey that confirms Pete McCarthy's status as one of our funniest and most incisive writers.