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    ^ [1] Dictionary of Canadian Biography
    ^ Standish, David (2006). Hollow earth: the long and curious history of imagining strange lands, fantastical creatures, advanced civilizations, and marvelous machines below the earth's surface. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81373-4.
    ^ "Literary Notes". New York Times. May 14, 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
    ^ De Mille, James (2011). Daniel Burgoyne, ed. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. Peterborough: Broadview Press. pp. 337–342.

A scholarly edition of the work was published by the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts (CEECT) (see below). This edition is the source of the information provided by this article.

    Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 27.ons (2007). In this novel about the ill fated exploration by HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to discover the Northwest Passage. The ships left England in May 1846 and were never heard from again, although since then much has been discovered about the fate of the 129 officers and crew. References are made to Van Diemen's Land during the chapters devoted to Francis Crozier.
    Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in Peter Carey's book, True History of the Kelly Gang, as a place the Kelly parents suffered on their way to the Colony of Victoria.
    Van Diemen's Land is the setting of the novel English Passengers by Matthew Kneale (2000), which tells the story of three eccentric Englishmen who in 1857 set sail for the island in search of the Garden of Eden. The story runs parallel with the narrative of a young Tasmanian who tells the struggle of the indigenous population and the desperate battle against the invading British colonists.
    Christopher Koch's novel : "Out of Ireland" describes life as a convict in Van Diemen's Land.
    Richard Butler's novel "The Men That God Forgot" (1977) is based on the historical events of 10 convicts who escape from Van Diemen's Land to Valdivia, Chile in 1833.
    Marcus Clarke used historical events as the basis for his fictional For the Term of His Natural Life (1870) , the story of a gentleman, falsely convicted of murder, who is transported to Van Diemen's Land.
    Julian Stockwin's nautical fiction series, the The Kydd Series, includes the book Command (2006) in which Thomas Kydd takes a ship to Van Diemen's Land, at the behest of then governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King, for the purpose of preventing French explorers from establishing a French settlement on the island.
    In Charles Dickens's novel "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit" the character of Augustus leaves a note addressed to his betrothed to the effect that he has sailed away to Van Diemen's Land, "Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be--if not a corpse--on the way to Van Dieman's Land".
    Kevin G Dyer's novel "Dark Night In Van Diemen's Land" tells the story of a young couple transported to the Port Arthur penal settlement.

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