'Whalers and Free Men:  Life on 

Tasmania's Colonial Whaling Stations'
 
by Susan Lawrence
 
Australian Scholarly Publishing 2006. 
ISBN 174097 087X
rrp $34.95. 
 

 
This book presents the results of excavations at two whaling stations in 

Tasmania occupied in the 1820s-1840s.  Written for a general audience, it includes a history of the Tasmanian shore whaling industry and the technology of shore whaling, and uses documentary records to understand more about the stations' owners and the men who worked there. The analysis of architectural and artefactual data from the sites sheds light on the seasonal nature of the industry, the diet and dress of the whalers, class structures on the stations, and the processes by which goods were obtained and discarded by the men.
 

 
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