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Godwin's Emigrant's Guide to Van Diemen's Land - facsimile edition
Added: Nov 3, 2026
Thomas Godwin's 1823 guide for intending emigrants to Van Diemen's Land, originally published in London by Sherwood, Jones & Co. and reproduced here as a numbered 1990 facsimile from St David's Park Publishing.
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Michael Howe - the last and worst of the bush rangers of Van Diemen's Land
Added: Nov 2, 2026
This is a 1966 Platypus Publications facsimile, numbered 126 of 500, of Michael Howe, the Last and Worst of the Bush Rangers of Van Diemen's Land, originally printed by Andrew Bent in Hobart Town in December 1818 and attributed to Thomas Wells.
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Jorgenson - A Shred of Autobiography or the progress of a convict HCDJ
Added: Nov 2, 2026
Jorgen Jorgenson (1780–1841) was a Danish-born adventurer who briefly ruled Iceland as a self-appointed administrator in 1809, earning him the nickname 'the Convict King'. Transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1826, he worked there as an explorer, constable — including in parties sent against Tasmanian Aboriginal people — and newspaper editor, before receiving a full pardon in 1835.
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History
A broad collection of Tasmanian history books, spanning colonial settlement and Van Diemen's Land through to the state's more recent history. For town and district-specific histories, see our Local History section; for the stories of individual Tasmanians, see Biography.
Jorgenson - A Shred of Autobiography or the progress of a convict HCDJ
Jorgen Jorgenson (1780–1841) was a Danish-born adventurer who briefly ruled Iceland as a self-appointed administrator in 1809, earning him the nickname 'the Convict King'. Transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1826, he worked there as an explorer, constable — including in parties sent against Tasmanian Aboriginal people — and newspaper editor, before receiving a full pardon in 1835.
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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
A history of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Tasmania.
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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
A true story of ambition, obsession and the remaking of Arctic history.
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![John Bowen's Hobart – The Beginning of European Settlement in Tasmania | Phillip Tardif | 2003 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/john-bowens-hobart-r1eM4i.png "John Bowen's Hobart – The Beginning of European Settlement in Tasmania | Phillip Tardif | 2003 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
