ISBN10: 0670900680, ISBN13: 9780670900688, [publisher: Penguin Random House Australia] Softcover title page clipped
[Melbourne, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 0670900680, ISBN13: 9780670900688, [publisher: Viking O'Neil, Ringwood, Vic] Hardcover First Edition Printed in double column. xiii, 353pp, b/w ills throughout, notes, five appendices, bibliography, index, end-paper maps: Van Diemen's Land. Olive cloth boards in dust-jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket inc 1cm tear at top of rear spine fold, some minor silverfishing to bottom edge of boards. The book traces 'the lives and experiences of the specially selected 308 convicts transported in HMS Calcutta in 1803. The convicts arrived at Port Phillip and moved to the Derwent where they began the settlement which became Hobart. As social history, the book reveals much about the interchanges between felon and free, male and female, in early colonial days. The work also includes meticulous biographies of every Calcutta convict, with many surnames of the thousands of descendants. Size: 4to
[Ashmore, QLD, Australia] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 0670900680, ISBN13: 9780670900688, [publisher: Viking O'Neil, Ringwood, VIC] Hardcover First Edition Map of Van Diemen's Land front and back cover. Including insert of the Furneaux group of islands. B&W photographs and illustrations throughout. Includes Biographies p.248 to p. 326 and Appendices A to E (p. 327 to 331). 29 cm x 22 cm. 353 pp. Over 1 kg, may require extra postage.
[ELMHURST, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1988]