"The History of Tasmania" by John West tells about the first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European explorer Abel Tasman, a 1772 French expedition led by M
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing the
"The History of Tasmania" in two volumes is the most significant work by the Australian author John West that features the development of the British colonizati