The History of the Island of Van Diemen's Land, from the Year 1824 to 1835 Inclusive /

Van Diemen's Land was the name originally given to the island known today as Tasmania, Australia, and it was settled by the British in 1803 as a penal colony. Before writing this history of the island, the author, Henry Saxelby Melville (1799–1873), a journalist, was imprisoned in 1835 for cont...

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Language:English
Published: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1835.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Series:Cambridge library collection. History of Oceania.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139107648
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