Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land by Alistair Scott | PB Autobiography / Biography $1 from the sale from

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Urchin Convicts: The Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land by Alistair Scott | PB Autobiography / Biography $1 from the sale fromThis book has been awarded the 2026 Kay Daniels Award (sponsored by members and associates of the Australian Historical Association, the University of Tasmania and the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority) and shortlisted in the Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2026. In the early nineteenth century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over two thousand