Tasmania 1803-1900 by George Finkel

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps and stickers on inside. Wear to book corners and edges. Sticky tape stains on front and back covers. Some foxing to foredges. Dust jacket has only light creasing. Binding is still very good.

From 1803, when Lieutenant John Bowen landed at Risdon Cove to found a new settlement on the Derwent River, to 1900, when Queen Victoria proclaimed the Commonwealth of Australia, Tasmania has had an exciting, chequered and often bloodthirsty history.