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McGOOGAN, Ken, Lady Franklin’s Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History A biography of a woman of powerful personality who profoundly influenced the cultural development of Van Diemen’s Land. Subsequently much of her great energy was devoted to her relentless quest for the truth about the fate of her explorer husband Sir John Franklin. $55.00
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PARKER, Henry Walter, Van Dieman’s Land; Its Rise,
Progress and Present State: with Advice to Emigrants, Second Edition, Containing a Supplement Shewing the State of the Colony in May, 1834 Ferguson, 1836. Original cloth. Folding coloured map. Good
copy in original state. Signature of Thomas George Gregson (1798–1874), Premier of Tasmania briefly in 1857. $A500.00
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RYAN, Lyndall, The Aboriginal Tasmanians This work demonstrates that although dispossessed, Tasmanian Aborigines did not die out. It examines the 19th-century myth that Aborigines could not survive invasion; it covers Aboriginal resistance and policies towards Aboriginies after the invasion. The Aboriginal Tasmanians documents the emergence of a new Aboriginal community. $35.00
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WEBSTER, E.H. & Norman, L., A Hundred Years of Yachting J. Walch & Sons (printers): Hobart, 1936. Issued under the auspices of the Government of Tasmania, the Hobart Marine Board, and the Hobart City Council. 256pp. Well illustrated, folding panorama (2 views) at rear. Original reptilian cloth with original coloured illustration pasted to front board. A very good copy. $A300.00
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