Umarrah & George by Angela Baker | PB Travel In the process of writing

In the process of writing the book

and gives a sense of the social and cultural milieu of nineteenth-century Hobart and beyond

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Umarrah & George by Angela Baker | PB Travel In the process of writingThis book has been shortlisted in the Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2026. Umarrah, a young Aboriginal man, is rescued from drowning by George, a young Van Diemens Land settler. Umarrah uses their emerging friendship to gain information on his sisters abduction and intelligence on the islands invaders. As the early years of relative peace are replaced by increasing violence, Umarrah becomes entangled in government efforts to