Van Diemonians
Inga Clendinnen: Convict Culture in Tasmania, 4 December 2008
Van Diemen’s Land: A History
by James Boyce.
Black, 388 pp., £20.75, February 2008,978 1 86395 413 6 Show More
by James Boyce.
Black, 388 pp., £20.75, February 2008,
“... to have enjoyed good relations with the indigenous population through his Aboriginal wife, Black Mary. Howe came to pose a serious threat to the administration, and between 1815 and 1818 the British authorities in Van Diemen’s Land engaged ‘in what amounted to a civil war’ with Howe and his bushrangers. When bounty-hunters killed him outside his bark ... ”