Van Diemen‘s Land Aboriginal But Westlake encountered living Indigenous

But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an Aboriginal people with a complex culture and a deep past

His poetry and prose add significantly to Jane’s observations and artwork in this beautifully presented publication

Author Marie Geissler’s opening essay traces the progression from rock art through to the launch of the Western desert movement

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Aunty Jeanette has a permit to collect the Echidna quills from roadkill

Van Diemen‘s Land Aboriginal But Westlake encountered living IndigenousAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemens Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book, James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon settled away from the towns, dressing in kangaroo skin and living off the land. Behind the official attempt to create a Little England was another