{"product_id":"of-one-blood-the-last-histories-of-van-diemans-land","title":"Of One Blood: the last histories of Van Dieman's Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the last year of his life, Jorgen Jorgensen sits alone in a darkened cell, writing his final life history. This time, he swears, it will be the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOf One Blood\u003c\/em\u003e is a creative re-imagining of the early years of the colony of Van Diemen's Land in the mid-19th Century. It is told largely through the contrasting voices of two of the colony's most enigmatic characters – Jorgen Jorgensen and George Augustus Robinson – both men who invented their own histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJorgen Jorgensen was a Danish adventurer who visited the very first settlement in Van Diemen's Land (modern Tasmania, south of Australia), as a sailor. Upon returning to Europe he ran into troubles and debt, coming back to Van Diemen's Land as a convict. He spent the remainder of his years there, and became renowned as an explorer, constable, author and teller of tales – primarily his own!\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Augustus Robinson by comparison, was a missionary, who took it upon himself to range across the wildness of Tasmania and gather up the remaining indigenous people and bring them to a mission where they would be saved – both spiritually and physically. However in forcing them into a mission they became more prone to diseases and the despondency of dislocation and many died in his care. In his writings he lionizes his achievements and plays down his failures.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Van Diemen's Land the two men inhabit is both a land of history and a land of possibility – blurring the boundaries between what did happen and what might have been, retelling history and myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46356968898770,"sku":"55798d49-5394-3104-9590-0817fba4a855","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_3e82b1f6-99ca-4af9-a35b-677c3bbc123a.jpg?v=1764376137","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/of-one-blood-the-last-histories-of-van-diemans-land","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}