Van Diemen's LandThe acclaimed history of colonial Tasmania 'A brilliant book and a must read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' Tim Flannery Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia arrived at Van Diemen's Land. There, they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this multi award winning history of colonial Tasmania, James Boyce shows how the newcomers were changed by the natural world they