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Old Working Trucks of Tasmania - Tasmanian Truck History 1909 to 1970 | L.J. Morley | 2026 NEW SC
Added: Sep 18, 2026

L.J. Morley's history of Tasmania's working trucks from 1909 to 1970 - from Mt Lyell mining trucks and Huon apple trucks to Hobart's fire engines and wartime army vehicles, with hundreds of photographs.


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Islands of the Island State - Rees Campbell explores 40 of Tasmania's 6,500 offshore islands, their history & wild food | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Sep 8, 2026

Rees Campbell, author of the bestselling Eat MORE Wild Tasmanian, turns her attention to Tasmania's off-shore islands. There are some 6,500 islands, islets, rocks and reefs around the state, and this book visits 40 of them — from the largest, Flinders Island, to the remote and uninhabited Pedra Branca and Mewstone in the Southern Ocean, to some of the smallest and closest, like the Harbour Islets in the state's far North West.


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40 South Short Story Anthology 2026
Added: Jul 23, 2026

Finalist stories from Forty South's Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2026, an annual short story competition open to writers in Australia and New Zealand on an island, or island-resonant, theme.


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Floating Prisons - Irish Convict Hulks and Voyages to New South Wales 1823-1837
Looking deeply into Ireland's penal administration, divided society, and the convict voyages, Anne McMahon draws conclusions that will change many assumptions about Australia, Ireland and the British Empire.

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Flotsam & Jetsam - Henry Button autobiographical fragments |SC|

Henry Button (1829–1914) was one of 19th-century Launceston's most prominent figures — rising from cub reporter to sole proprietor of the Launceston Examiner by 1887, and serving as Launceston alderman and mayor. He married Emma Glover, granddaughter of the celebrated colonial artist John Glover.


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Flying Bass Strait - stories of Tasmania's aviation history, from Lieut. Long's first crossing| James R Boag | 2013 [USED – SC – Rare]

Stories of the first air crossing of Bass Strait - between mainland Australia and Tasmania - and those who followed Lieutenant Long making it possible for regular air services to be established across Bass Strait. James R. Boag structures this book as a year-by-year chronicle of key events in Bass Strait aviation history, from 1914 to 1956, including aviation disasters.


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Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen by Patsy Adam-Smith |HCDJ 1969|

Patsy Adam-Smith collects the stories and traditions of Australia's railway workers — a subject close to her own upbringing as the child of Victorian railway workers, and one she returned to throughout her writing career. This was one of her earliest books, published not long after she left Hobart.


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Fonthill - used book
The fascinating story of the Tasmanian colonial property Fonthill in the Midlands, and the three families - Tabarts, Burburys, Harveys - that have dominated its stewardship over almost 175 years.

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Footprint of Consequence - memories of a young Englishwoman at Cape Grimm
In 1966 Brigit Fleming Smith, a young Englishwoman, married an Australian from Victoria who had recently bought enough shares in the old Chartered Land Company of VDL to give him overall control in farming Woolnorth at Cape Grim in Tasmania's north-west.

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For the Forests – A History of the Tasmanian Forest Campaigns | Helen Gee (Ed.) | 2001 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

Helen Gee's history of the campaigns to protect Tasmania's native forests — from the early conservation battles of the 1960s and 1970s through to the sustained conflict over old-growth logging and wilderness that defined Tasmanian environmental politics through the 1980s and 1990s. The Tasmanian forest campaigns were among the most sustained and bitterly contested environmental struggles in Australian history.


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For the Love of Food - used
This beautifully designed book tells the stories of 41 Tasmanians whose lives have been shaped by their passion for food, including gourmet farmer Matthew Evans, Kirsha Kaechele (Feast Curator at MONA and wife of MONA owner David Walsh), and Luke Burgess (Garagistes).

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For the Record - used
James Bennell's buildings in early Launceston, northern Tasmania.

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For the Term of His Natural Life - Popular Penguin
The orange Popular Penguin edition of Marcus Clarke's historical convict novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.

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