The Trilogy Tasmanian Rogues and Absconders 1803 - 1821 is another work by Tasmanian Historian Alex Graham-Evans. It provides us with a refreshing and vivid reappraisal of Tasmania's early beginnings as a penal colony of the then indomitable British Empire. This book deals with the New Frontiers from 1803 - 1821. It endeavours to capture the environment of those early days of settlement by Europeans in Van Deaman's Land. It tells the history of convicts escaping custody, "free" men and women and the activities of bushrangers.