Van Diemen‘s Land Aboriginal Leader of the Oyster Bay

Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and '30s

Taylor rose to prominence in the early 1980s

Envirowoolly hand puppets are knitted using Australian wool and wool blends

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

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

Van Diemen‘s Land Aboriginal Leader of the Oyster BayAlmost 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