books.google.co.uk - Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to 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 book James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Van_Diemen_s_Land.html?id=Z2dMvxEH6PoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareVan Diemen's Land