Author: NORMAN, L.
Title: Pioneer Shipping Of Tasmania. Whaling, Sealing, Piracy, Shipwrecks, etc in Early Tasmania.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 220; b/w frontispiece, 66 b/w illustrations, index of vessels, index of Persons and Landmarks, index of Early Hotels, Public Houses, Inns, Taverns Ferry Houses and Butts; blue cloth with gilt title on spine, as issued colour illustration laid down on front board, minor insect damage to front illustration; bumping to edges, bookplate, a good copy. Hobart, J. Walch & Sons, n.d. circa 1938. Includes a 'Chronology of curious and interesting facts relating to old Van Diemen's Land, and (from 1856) to Tasmania.'. B/W frontispiece Hobart in the whaling days'. B/W illustrations include trains "Centaurus" Port Jackson a Port Liner, the "Strathallen' the Rangitane, the Ketch "Defender", stranded whales at Stanley Alma Doepel, Rooganah, May Queen, a group of the last Tasmanian Aborigines. Includes loose b/w photo of the Grace Darling on slips. An account of a Ship that had pirated on the Spanish Main, Hydro Electricity and much more.

Keywords: Tasmania local history convicts shipwrecks piracy whaling bushrangers social crime maritime Van Diemen's Land Bushranging bushrangers piracy wrecks wreckers sealers whalers sealing Strathallen Rangitane Defender Alma Doepel Rooganah Orcades May Queen Tasm