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Billy: A Boy from Queenstown Tasmania – under-aged boys signing up in the Great War (2026) – Sandra Stubbings
Added: Jun 9, 2026
 
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A newly researched true account of Billy Gadd, a young lad from Tasmania's West Coast mining town of Queenstown who managed to enlist in the AIF during World War I while under the legal age.


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Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds | Dave Watts | 2025 Updated Edition
Added: Oct 7, 2018
 
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Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds (Updated Edition)
By Dave Watts

Long considered the essential pocket companion for local birdwatchers and visitors alike, Dave Watts’ definitive field guide is finally back in stock after months of being unavailable. This 192-page softcover provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use directory covering all major bird species found across Tasmania's diverse wilderness.


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Glimpses of the Lives and Times of the Early Tasmanian Governors (1905) – J.W. Beattie [worn copy - errata slip tipped in]
Added: Jun 8, 2026
 
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A scarce 1905 historical survey detailing the administrations of early colonial governors like Collins, Davey, Sorell, and Arthur. Originally delivered as lectures during the 1904 centenary, this volume was published by the legendary Tasmanian photographer and historian John Watt Beattie.


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A history of the North East Tasmanian town of Legerwood.

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Let Me Out of Russia - a struggle for freedom
 
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A true story of a Tasmanian family.

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Letters from Hobart 1889-1892 James Backhouse Walker
 
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The letters of noted Hobart lawyer and historian, James Backhouse Walker, to his sister in Europe over a four year period in the late nineteenth century.

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Letters to Pituncarty Tasmania - signed
 
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Colonial correspondence of Christian Taylor Buist who lived at Pituncarty on the Macquarie River in Tasmania's Midlands, including letters from Ellinthorpe (sic) Hall, telling much of the local Taylor family history.

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A history of the dispossession of the Mairremmener people in Van Diemen's Land 1803-1832, better known as the Oyster Bay Tribe and the Big River Tribe, but by reason of a common language and a single culture, one group, one people.

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Life is for Living - SIGNED Marjorie Bligh autobiography
 
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Lindsay Haslem - used
 
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Stories from the life of Australia fly fisherman Lindsay Haslem, including tales of angling in Tasmania.

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Lion - A Long Way Home
 
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When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost Indian home town half a world away from Tasmania, he made global headlines.

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Lion - A Long Way Home - Young Readers' Edition
 
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Saroo Brierley became lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a family in Tasmania.

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Lioness - the story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo
 
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Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture Lion. This is the story of his adoptive mother, Sue, and how she came into his life half a world away in Tasmania.

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