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Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC] See details
Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC]
Added: Mar 27, 2026

One hundred places on the Tasmanian Heritage Register — and the stories of why they were built, who built them, and why they matter. Tasmania has more heritage-listed buildings per capita than any other Australian state, and the stories behind them are often as significant as the buildings themselves.

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We Were The First - early pioneering in north-west Tasmania and Trowutta See details
We Were The First - early pioneering in north-west Tasmania and Trowutta
Added: Aug 12, 2026

Seafield Deuchar (born Brisbane, 1886) studied at Cambridge before settling near Wynyard in Tasmania's north-west in 1916, taking up and clearing pioneering farmland near Trowutta. This book, illustrated throughout with Deuchar's own paintings, covers clearing the forest, building the family home, water supply, early agriculture and exploration of the district, and the pioneers of Trowutta and district.

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History

Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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History of Tasmania See details
History of Tasmania
A history of Tasmania from its discovery in 1642 to 1884 by James Fenton with map of the island and portraits of aborigines in chromo-lithography - facsimile edition published in 1978.
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Hobart Town Album 1804-1850 See details
Hobart Town Album 1804-1850
General views of Hobart Town or of its individual buildings sketched by various artists before 1850.
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Hobart Town or Summer Holiday Resort in the Antipodes See details
Hobart Town or Summer Holiday Resort in the Antipodes
A translation into English by Eva Meidl of Archduke Ludwig Salvator's 300-page illustrated book Hobarttown oder Sommerfrische in den Antipoden, written following his visit to Tasmania in February 1881.
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I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield See details
I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield
I Had A Quid to Get - a book recalling the days around osmiridium mining at Adamsfield 1925 and other Tasmanian stories.
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Ill-starred Captains - Flinders & Baudin See details
Ill-starred Captains - Flinders & Baudin
A book about the South Pacific maritime expeditions of Matthew Flinders for Britain, and Nicolas Baudin for France, at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
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In My Day – A History of General Nurse Training at the Royal Hobart Hospital 1803–1993 | Cheryl Norris | 2011 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
In My Day – A History of General Nurse Training at the Royal Hobart Hospital 1803–1993 | Cheryl Norris | 2011 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A history of general nurse training at the Royal Hobart Hospital, spanning from the hospital's earliest colonial origins in 1803 through to 1993. The Royal Hobart Hospital's roots reach back to the earliest years of European settlement in Van Diemen's Land, and nurse training there evolved over almost two centuries from informal colonial-era care through to the structured professional training systems of the 20th century.

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In Tasmania - hardcover See details
In Tasmania - hardcover
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.
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In Tasmania | Nicholas Shakespeare | 2007 [SC] See details
In Tasmania | Nicholas Shakespeare | 2007 [SC]

Nicholas Shakespeare — novelist and biographer of Bruce Chatwin — came to Tasmania on holiday, found a house on an east coast beach near Swansea, and decided on the spot that this was where he wanted to live. He didn't yet know that his ancestor was Anthony Fenn Kemp — the corrupt, colourful and influential figure now known by some as the Father of Tasmania — or that he would find relatives still living on the island.

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Inducements and Agents - used See details
Inducements and Agents - used
A history of German, Northern European and Scandinavian Recruitment to Tasmania 1855-1887.
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Inscriptions in Stone - St David's Burial Ground 1804-1872 See details
Inscriptions in Stone - St David's Burial Ground 1804-1872

A record of some of the early history of Hobart Town, drawn from the headstone inscriptions of St David's Burial Ground — Van Diemen's Land's first cemetery, in use from 1804 to 1872. A valuable resource for tracing early Hobart and colonial-era family history.

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