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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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Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]
Added: Jul 15, 2026

Peter Hughes's comprehensive study of furniture made in Van Diemen's Land during the early colonial period — the most thorough treatment of this subject since Craig, Fahy and Robertson's Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (1972).


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Island Affair – Life on Three Hummock Island, Bass Strait | Eleanor Alliston | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print]
Added: Sep 8, 2026

Eleanor Alliston's memoir of the years her family spent living on Three Hummock Island — a remote Bass Strait island off Tasmania's north-west coast — in the aftermath of the Second World War.


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Gardeners, Plant Collectors, Friends - Hobart Town & Beyond
A book about the early gardeners of Van Diemen's Land.

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Gardening in Tasmania - TD Raphael handbook

A vintage Tasmanian gardening handbook by Thomas Dividson Raphael, a botanist whose research on Tasmanian garden escapes — plants that spread from cultivation into the wild — was published by the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1955 and remains cited in official Tasmanian vegetation surveys today.


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Glimpses of Gold - CWA
Glimpses of Gold gives a brief history of the CWA Country Women's Association in Tasmania as of the mid-1980s.

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Goitre Monitor - history of iodine deficiency in Tasmania, first in the Tasmanian iodine trilogy, signed | Paul A.C. Richards & John C. Stewart | 2007 [USED – SC]

Goitre Monitor is the first book in a trilogy on iodine and public health in Tasmania, followed by Iodophor (2020) and Seaweed (2022), both also in our stock. Goitre Monitor traces the early history of goitre and iodine deficiency in Tasmania — from first European reports and Launceston General Hospital case records, through the earliest thyroid surgery in Tasmania, 20th century household nutrition surveys, the introduction of iodised salt prophylaxis, to the notorious 1960s Tasmanian thyrotoxicosis epidemic.


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Good Life Growing
How to grow fruit and veg anywhere in Australia.

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Gorgeous Gardens of Tasmania
A journey through some of Tasmania's most spectacular public and private gardens.

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Gorgeous Gardens Way Down South
A casual pictorial wander through some of the beautiful gardens of southern Tasmania.

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Great Properties of Tasmania
A celebration of 18 of the remarkable private rural properties of Tasmania including: Ashton & Lawrenny (Ouse); Brickendon, Mout Ireh, Mountford & Panshanger (Longford); Egleston, Winton & Quorn Hall (Campbell Town); Connorville (Cressy); Ellenthorpe Hall, Lochiel & Trefusis (Ross); Enstone Park (Falmouth); Glenelg (Gretna); Meadowbank (Glenora); Stonehenge (Oatlands); and Wesley Dale (Chudleigh).

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Hand Made in Tasmania
Hand Made in Tasmania showcases the work of artisans living in Tasmania at the time of publication. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Hearts of Oak - Tasmania southern forests by Bill Leitch |Used signed HCDJ|

In Hearts of Oak, Bill Leitch tells the story of the southern forests of Tasmanian from the early days of the convict timber getters.


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