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The empire strikes back.(Van Diemen's Land)(Critical essay)
Van Diemen's Land, by James Boyce; Black Inc, 2008, $49.95.
JAMES BOYCE'S Van Diemen's Land is a handsomely produced book with a famous 1834 John Glover painting on the dust-cover depicting about thirty-eight Tasmanian Aboriginal people swimming and dancing. The backdrop to this scene, across the harbour, is Hobart Town at the foot of Mount Wellington. In the harbour are clearly seen over thirty sailing vessels and behind them the colonial buildings, houses and churches that we presume Glover saw as he stood with his sketch book on Kangaroo Point. One of the houses clearly depicted is Stanwell Hall, Glover's Hobart home.
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