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From Convicts to Computers - Tasmanian Supreme Court See details
From Convicts to Computers - Tasmanian Supreme Court
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Two hundred years of the Tasmanian Supreme Court - a history by Justice Stephen Estcourt AM.
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The Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company See details
The Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company
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The history of a magnificent gold mine at Beaconsfield 1877-1903.
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From Horses to Horse Power See details
From Horses to Horse Power
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A nostalgic photographic exploration of Tasmania's transportation evolution from horses to horse power.
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Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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Tasmanian Aborigines - A History Since 1803 See details
Tasmanian Aborigines - A History Since 1803
 
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A history of Tasmania's Aborigines from white settlement through to modern times.
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Wonderstruck See details
Wonderstruck
 
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A history of the discovery and use of Tasmania's caves and karsts.
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Locomotive Enginemen of Tasmania See details
Locomotive Enginemen of Tasmania
 
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A tribute to the locomotive engine men who crewed Tasmania's railways from its earliest days through to recent times. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles See details
Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles
 
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This book is about the 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this groundbreaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.
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Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission See details
Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission
 
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This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834, edited by NJB Plomley and republished in 2008.
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Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport 1900-1929 See details
Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport 1900-1929
 
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Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport 1900 - 1929 is a brief history of early motoring in Tasmania.
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Tasmanian Tiger - The tragic story of the thylacine See details
Tasmanian Tiger - The tragic story of the thylacine
 
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The tragic story of how ignorance, fear and lack of caring led to the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine.
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Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land See details
Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land
 
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Where did the name Van Diemen's Land come from? How was it chosen? Were there any alternatives? And how did it obtain self-government and the new name of Tasmania?
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First Views of Lake St Clair - John Skinner Prout & Morton Allport See details
First Views of Lake St Clair - John Skinner Prout & Morton Allport
 
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In 1862 the artist John Skinner Prout published an account of his 1845 trip to Lake St Clair. In 1863, his student and photographer Morton Allport travelled to Lake St Clair and using the new 'dry plate' technique, achieved the first photographic record of the area - Tasmania's first wilderness photographs.
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La Trobe - Traveller Writer Governor See details
La Trobe - Traveller Writer Governor
 
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This lavishly illustrated biography of Charles Joseph La Trobe uncovers the man behind the public name, as not only an important colonial figure but an author and artist.
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