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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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Launceston General Hospital - celebrating 150 years of caring See details
Launceston General Hospital - celebrating 150 years of caring
A history of the LGH.
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Lawless Harvests or God Save the Judges See details
Lawless Harvests or God Save the Judges
A legal history of Van Diemen's Land (subsequently Tasmania) from 1803 to 1855.



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Lawyers and the Community See details
Lawyers and the Community
A history of lawyers and the Tasmanian community from Tasman Shields K.C. to John Kable Q.C. This is an out-of-print book in USED and somewhat worn condition.
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Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb See details
Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb
The history of the convict William Webb, transported for theft, and the very successful legacy his family left to the young colony in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania and beyond.
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Letters from Hobart 1889–1892 | James Backhouse Walker | Margaret Glover (Ed.) | 2015 | Signed by Editor [USED – HCDJ] See details
Letters from Hobart 1889–1892 | James Backhouse Walker | Margaret Glover (Ed.) | 2015 | Signed by Editor [USED – HCDJ]

The correspondence of James Backhouse Walker to his sister Mary in London over four years from 1889 to 1892, edited by Margaret Glover and published in 2015. Walker was one of Hobart's most prominent lawyers and a noted historian of Van Diemen's Land — his historical papers on early Tasmania remain among the most cited sources in Tasmanian colonial history.

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Letters to Pituncarty Tasmania See details
Letters to Pituncarty Tasmania

Colonial correspondence of Christian Taylor Buist who lived at Pituncarty on the Macquarie River in Tasmania's Midlands, including letters from Ellinthorpe (sic) Hall, telling much of the local Taylor family history. 

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Letters to Sir Joseph Banks See details
Letters to Sir Joseph Banks
Letters from Hobart's founder David Collins to the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks - London and the Derwent 1798-1808.

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Life in Old Van Diemens Land See details
Life in Old Van Diemens Land
A portrayal of the colourful life of the colonial Tasmanian convict settlement in the first half of the 19th century.
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Lifeblood of a Colony See details
Lifeblood of a Colony
A history of irrigation in Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Lifeblood – Tasmania's Hydro Power | Roger Lupton | 1999 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print] See details
Lifeblood – Tasmania's Hydro Power | Roger Lupton | 1999 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

At the time of publication, Tasmania generated more electricity per head of population than any place in the world except Norway, and 99% of that power came from water. Lifeblood is Roger Lupton's history of the Hydro-Electric Commission — the Hydro — and the century-long project to harness that resource across the island.

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