Author: Dunbabin, Tom.
Title: Making Their Own Way: The Dunbabins on Maria Island 1869 - 1876.
Description: Dunalley, TAS Bangor Publications, 2010. Paperback wide octavo (with flaps), very good plus condition, black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) & colour text-photos. 144 pp. Tom Dunbabin relates the story of two brothers establishing a farm on remote Maria Island, a former penal settlement, off Tasmania's east coast. The author has long been fascinated by his ancestors and their island home. A local history based mostly on surviving letters that reveal their triumphs and tragedies, loves and losses, in early colonial Tasmania. ISBN: 9780646542317

Keywords: australian biography, australian history, rural, letters, tasmania 9780646542317


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