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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
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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Little Boats with Sails
A history of yachting's 21 foot restricted class which filled an important niche in Australia's sailing history between the first and second world wars.

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Living Stones - 3 volume set
A guide to some Tasmanian graveyards - a set of all three volumes of the Living Stones books.

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Living Stones - volume II
A guide to some Tasmanian graveyards - volume II of a series of three Living Stones books.

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Love, Passion and Cruelty in Van Diemen's Land
A selection of George Meredith's love letters to his wife Mary covering the colonial period of 1823 to 1836.

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Lure of the Thylacine - The Tasmanian Tiger
Col Bailey's fascination with the Tasmanian Tiger was born of his discussions with tiger trapper, Reg Trigg, who regaled him with stories of his encounters with the elusive and now believed extinct, marsupial, including his friendship with a thylacine he rescued from a trap.

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Madigan's Account - used
The Antarctic diaries of C.T. Madigan from the Mawson Expedition 1911-1914.

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Mapping Van Diemen's Land and the Great Beyond | Royal Society of Tasmania | [USED – HC – Very Good]

A collection of rare and significant maps from the Royal Society of Tasmania's collection — many of them little seen by the public — published to showcase the breadth and historical significance of the Society's cartographic holdings. The maps principally cover Van Diemen's Land from the earliest days of European contact and settlement, but the collection extends to areas "beyond".


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Metal Mining In Tasmania 1804 to 1914

A comprehensive account of the development of the metal mining industry in Tasmania from the beginnings of British settlement in Van Diemen's Land in 1804 to the outbreak of the First World War, with a focus on how the government helped shape the mining industry.


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Michael Howe
Michael Howe - the last and worst of the bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land.

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More than a glass and a half - Cadbury
A history of Cadbury chocolate manufacturer in Australia.

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