Making Their Own Way: The Dunbabins on Maria Island 1869 - 1876.
by Dunbabin, Tom
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0646542311
- ISBN 13
- 9780646542317
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Dunalley, TAS: Bangor Publications, 2010. Paperback wide octavo (with flaps), very good 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.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14897
- Title
- Making Their Own Way: The Dunbabins on Maria Island 1869 - 1876.
- Author
- Dunbabin, Tom
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0646542311
- ISBN 13
- 9780646542317
- Publisher
- Bangor Publications
- Place of Publication
- Dunalley, TAS
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- australian biography, australian history, rural, letters, tasmania
- Bookseller catalogs
- RURAL & FARMING;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...