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PLOMLEY, N.J.B.

An Immigrant of 1824.

THRA Hobart 1973 47pp, 2 plates, 9 figures. Stapled in wrappers (spine faded). Very good. Loosely inserted is an offprint of Plomley's article 'George Augustus Robinson and the Tasmanian Aborigines (Feb 1956, 8pp), published in the THRA Papers & Proceedings - and also a sheet of THRA letterhead with Plomley's presentation inscription from 1973. ISBN ***The immigrant is George Augustus Robinson, later the 'Conciliator' of the Tasmanian Aborigines. This account is based on his shipboard diary, kept during his passge, aboard Triton, to Van Diemen's Land.

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