Publications by Henry Reynolds
Books
A History of Tasmania
by Henry Reynolds
- Publisher:
- Cambridge, 2012
- Format:
- Paperback, 331 pages (also Kindle)
- Other info:
- A concise and highly readable account of Tasmanian history since the late 18th century.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-521-54837-3
- Availability:
- Local bookshops or Amazon
The author captures the perspectives of both Indigenous Tasmanians and British settlers, providing an original and engaging exploration of the fraught first encounters, Reynolds explores how geography created a unique economic and migratory history for Tasmania, quite different from the mainland experience.
Why Weren’t We Told?
by Henry Reynolds
- Publisher:
- Penguin, 1999
- Format:
- Paperback, 264 pages
- Other info:
- A personal search for the truth about our history.
- ISBN:
- 978 0 14027842 2
- Availability:
- Local bookshops or Amazon
Historian Henry Reynolds asks this question and answers by tracing his personal journey towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with an idealised version of the past.
Fate of a Free People
by Henry Reynolds
- Publisher:
- Penguin, 1990
- Format:
- Paperback, 259 pages
- Other info:
- Groundbreaking study of Aboriginal/European relations in Colonial Tasmania
- ISBN:
- 014 3002 376
- Availability:
- Local bookshops or Amazon
This book changed the way early Tasmanina history was understood. It established that a treaty was negotiated between the Aboriginal nations of Central Tasmania and the agent of the Colonial Government George Augustus Robinson.