Van Diemen’s Land climate-action out of caution and into

out of caution and into action

But perhaps we should start with something she is not: Robyn Davidson does not like to call herself a writer

At times tense and claustrophobic

to determine their own lives and futures

’ —John Green

Van Diemen’s Land climate-action out of caution and intoWinner of the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize Winner of the 2008 Colin Roderick Award Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemens 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