Author: Captain, The.
Title: Inhumanity: Historical Tales of Old Convict Days from Millbank Prison (England) to Norfolk Island, Macquarie Harbour, Port Arthur: The Last of the Tasmanian Aborigines and Other Stories.
Description: Hobart J. Walch & Sons, 1932. 1st ed. Paperback small octavo, good plus condition, grey card covers (spine ends little torn & repaired), black & white text-photos & drawings, adverts, covered staples (rusted), minimal EX-LIBRARY (rubber stamps front cover), pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 115 pp. A scarce pamphlet of the early convict days in New South Wales (Norfolk Island and Macquarie Harbour), and then Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land (later called Tasmania). Includes the mutiny of the brig "Cyprus" in 1832, the liberated six from the Port Arthur coal mine, and a 12-page section on the last of the Tasmanian Aborigines, with photographs of the Aboriginal leaders. Contains adverts for 1930s local businesses in Hobart.

Keywords: australian history, convicts, aborigines, indigenous, new south wales, norfolk island, tasmania, van diemen's land (vdl), pacific, collectible, collectable


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