VAN DIEMEN’S LAND

Book ID/图书代码： 01899507B19518

English Summary/英文概要： “The most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore. In re-imagining Australia’s past, it invents a new future.” – Richard Flanagan
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 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 story of adaptation, in which the poor, the exiled and the criminal made a new home in a strange land. This is their story, the story of Van Diemen’s Land.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是有关“适应”的另一则故事，穷人，流亡者，罪犯是这块神奇之地的主人，这是他们的故事，也是Van Diemen’s Land的传奇。
几乎一半被运往澳大利亚的罪犯，来到了Van Diemen’s Land。从此摆脱权势，远离城镇，穿着袋鼠皮制作的衣服开始了新生活。
这是一本充斥新事物，新思想，记录英国殖民史上最富有戏剧性的著作。讲述丛林居民与统治者，罪犯和土著居民之间的关系变化，见证一个独一无二社会的成长变迁。
比起人类改变环境，此书更强调Van Diemen那里的移民们是怎么受到大自然的造化，得到重生的。那里不只是他们的监狱，更代表着希望的源泉。(ZY)

Awards/获奖情况：Winner: Tasmania Book Prize, Colin Roderick Award
Shortlisted: The Prime Minister’s Award, NSW, Victorian and QLD Premier’s Literary Awards

About the Author/作者介绍： James Boyce lives in Tasmania. His essay “Fantasy Island” was the central contribution to Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in 2004.
Jimes Boyce，居住在塔斯马尼亚岛，他的随笔“幻想大陆”是对Wbitewasb的主要贡献。2004年被提名为Victorian Premier文学奖的候选人，《God’s Own Country? The Anlican Cburcb and Tasmanian Aborigines 》一书的作者。他是塔斯马尼亚岛中心环境研究大学的名誉研究伙伴。

Format:HARDCOVER

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