num_pages: 400
description: 'The most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore. In re-imagining Australia's past it invents a new future.' Richard Flanagan (cover endorsement) Van Diemen's Land is a new groundbreaking history of the settlement of Tasmania. James Boyce's book is filled with new facts and new ideas about one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of British colonialism. Combining environmental insights with an unrivalled grasp of the politics of the frontier it will change the way scholars and the general public alike view Australian colonial history.
language: English
title: Van Diemen's Land
publisher: Black Inc.