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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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Into the Heart of Tasmania See details
Into the Heart of Tasmania
This book re-examines Tasmania's aboriginal history from a quite different perspective - the work of Earnest Westlake who visited the island in 1908.
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Jane Franklin Hall 1950-2010 See details
Jane Franklin Hall 1950-2010
Jane Franklin Hall 1950-2010 is the story of a residential women's college, affiliated with the University of Tasmania.
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John Bowen's Hobart – The Beginning of European Settlement in Tasmania | Phillip Tardif | 2003 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
John Bowen's Hobart – The Beginning of European Settlement in Tasmania | Phillip Tardif | 2003 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Phillip Tardif's history of the earliest European settlement in Tasmania — focusing on Lieutenant John Bowen's 1803 establishment of the first European settlement at Risdon Cove on the Derwent River, and the subsequent founding of what became Hobart Town under Lieutenant Colonel David Collins in 1804.

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John West's Union of the Colonies - essays on Federation See details
John West's Union of the Colonies - essays on Federation
Reverend John West's Union of the Colonies - essays on Australian Federation published under the pseudonym of John Adams in 1854.

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Jorgen Jorgenson and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land with fold-out map HCDJ See details
Jorgen Jorgenson and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land with fold-out map HCDJ

A  reconstruction of Jorgen Jorgenson's 'lost' book on Tasmanian aboriginal customs and habits, and on his role in Van Diemen's Land roving parties and the Black Line.

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Kin - a real people's history of our nation See details
Kin - a real people's history of our nation
Kin is the story of European settlement in Australia, told through the stories of the real people who made Australia's history what it is.
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Knights of the Road See details
Knights of the Road
A history of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Tasmania.
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La Trobe - Traveller Writer Governor See details
La Trobe - Traveller Writer Governor
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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Lady Franklin's Revenge - used See details
Lady Franklin's Revenge - used
A true story of ambition, obsession and the remaking of Arctic history.
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Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists - Van Diemen's Land 1803-1822 See details
Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists - Van Diemen's Land 1803-1822
This book records many of the old documents from the early convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1822.
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