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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book condition is very Good. Book block is sun stained. Spine intact. Text Body clean. Second last fly leaf page has a rip in top left of page. The Tasmanians were a unique Aboriginal race which once roamed the Island of Tasmania. Within a single generation of white settlement the primitive people, is no way related to the Aborigines of the main land Australia, has become extinct. The Tasmanians were particularly unfortunate . Their Fatal conflict with the English settlers took place at a time when, by nature of things, the newcomers were brutal and callous. When the Tasmanians finally retaliated against constant atrocities, women-stealing and murder by attacking isolated farms and stock keepers, the colony went to war - a war that was at once a tragedy and a farce. The cost to the colony was 27000 ponds. It resulted in the capture of a man and a boy. Even when the Tasmanians found a defender, in George Augustus Robinson, they were less than fortunate . This Hobart bricklayer-turned missionary persuaded the natives to follow him into exile on Flinders Island. There, singing hymns in damp, cast-off clothing, the Tasmanians died like flies. The last of the Tasmanians, having survived the settlers' bullets, died in christian squalor outside Hobart just as the science of anthropology was coming in being in London - less than one hundred year ago. (side of dust jacket). Book weight is 0.466kg.