Broken Spear Publication stone carvings

stone carvings

the photographer himself is less well-known

In this updated edition of Forgotten War

Encountering Terra Australis traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin

intimate and illuminating

Broken Spear Publication stone carvingsBlack Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen's Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of dozens of settlers. He burnt their buildings and destroyed their livestock and crops. Newspapers raged against him. One demanded he be lynched on capture. Although he was three times in British custody, Black Tom Birch was never tried or punished. Instead, he defected, and history tells us