Tasmanian - Sea Wolves and Bandits - L. Norman - Scarce First edition 1946

Tasmanian – Sea Wolves and Bandits – L. Norman – Scarce First edition 1946

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Maybe out favourite Tasmanian book. Published by the author printed by Walch, Hobart in 1946.

Large octavo, 208 pages heavily illustrated with images from early photographs across a broad subject base … many maritime, early building of note and key identities and groups, folding frontispiece of the Knight designed floating bridge. A very nice copy.

Starts with a “Chronology Statement of Curious and Interesting Facts” which makes for good introductory reading. Includes chapters on .. Privateering; Military Camps; First Roads; Duelling in VDL; Railways; the Gay 90’s; Bicycling: Sealers and Wreckers; Smuggling and Piracy; Early Banditry; Brigands of the Twenties; First Hobart Town Whaler … and much more

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Tasmanian – Sea Wolves and Bandits – L. Norman – Scarce First edition 1946

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