Cast Out by Malcolm Wood | PB Children / Juvenile Tasmanian historian Dr Meredith Hodgson

Tasmanian historian Dr Meredith Hodgson guides us through the remarkable life of Eliza Williams

It depicts an array of Tasmanian native flora and fauna

is crewed aboard a Bass Strait sealing ship

Entrants in the

Farms and Forests is an environmental and cultural account of the changes in the landscape from the last ice age to the present day

Cast Out by Malcolm Wood | PB Children / Juvenile Tasmanian historian Dr Meredith HodgsonA graphic, confronting story of poverty, loneliness, racism, rapacity and violence in Van Diemens Land. In Nottingham, England in 1810, John Marsden is jobless and desperate to find ways to feed his family. For stealing two sheep he is imprisoned and transported to Van Diemens Land. Although missing his family badly, Marsden works steadily, knowing that freedom and opportunity beckon. There will be no redemption for his former shipmates who have