Broken Spear Publication intimate and illuminating

intimate and illuminating

including dinosaurs

Encountering Terra Australis traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin

the photographer himself is less well-known

Broken Spear Publication intimate and illuminatingBlack Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen's Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of dozens of settlers. He burnt their buildings and destroyed their livestock and crops. Newspapers raged against him. One demanded he be lynched on capture. Although he was three times in British custody, Black Tom Birch was never tried or punished. Instead, he defected, and history tells us