Fullers Bookshop, 5.30pm Thursday: Henry Reynolds in conversation with Ian McFarlane
Peter Ingram-Jones
Author Ian McFarlane will be in conversation with Professor Henry Reynolds about his new book
Van Diemen’s Land
An Aboriginal History
Fullers Bookshop Thursday 12 March at 5.30 pm
Dr McFarlane’s controversial new history of Aborigines in Tasmania is a seminal work that corrects crucial assumptions in previous works. Arguably the most significant book to appear in Tasmanian publishing this year, it represents his strong desire to ensure that a proper history of the Tasmanian Aborigines be recorded.
Dr McFarlane lectures in history at UTAS at the North West Coast campus and has published widely in journals and has one previous book called Beyond Awakening. He fought in the Vietnam War and was a member of the Waterside Workers Union before becoming an academic.