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Don River Railway Locomotives, Carriages, Service Vehicles and Wagons
Added: Mar 31, 2025
 
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An illustrated reference to the rolling stock preserved by the Don River Railway in northern Tasmania. Colour photos throughout.

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Tasmanian ANZACS Vol 1 - signed
Added: Aug 4, 2024
 
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Those who served, their families and the impact of World War One - Volume I: the 12th and 52nd Battalions.

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Tasmanian Insights
Added: Mar 27, 2025
 
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Tasmanian Insights is a book of essays in honour of historian and librarian Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell.

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History

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

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Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
 
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This is a 1967 facsimile reprint of P.E.de Strzelecki's 1845 Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land accompanied by a geological map, sections and diagrams and figures of the organic remains. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Pictorial Portrayal of Tasmania's Past from Beatties Studio
 
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Capturing the history of Tasmania in old photographs.

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Poles Apart - Fascination, fame and folly - softcover
 
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The Royal Society of Tasmania's extensive collection of polar material is the focus of this fascinating volume that sheds light on the folly as well as the fame of the explorers who ventured to the icebound continents.

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Port Arthur - a Story of Strength and Courage
 
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Writer and resident of the Tasman Peninsula, Margaret Scott reflects on the year following the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur.

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Prospecting the Pieman - George Campbell Meredith
 
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For seventeen weeks over the summer of 1876-77 George Campbell Meredith and his brother Owen prospected and trekked in the harsh country along the Pieman River on Tasmania's west coast.

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Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission
 
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This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834, edited by NJB Plomley and republished in 2008.

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Real Tassie Legends
 
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Chronicles of an earlier Tasmania.

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Reverend George Eastman - The Convicts' Good Parson
 
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The story of a parson who believed that convicts in the later period of Van Diemen's Land's transportation era (1844-1870) could be reformed and who did all within his ability to help them achieve this lofty goal.

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Revolutionary Imperialist - William Smith O'Brien
 
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A book that traces William Smith O'Brien's domestic, political and nationalist life in Ireland, showing that, despite sympathy with British imperialism, he resorted to armed protest to win self-government for Ireland from Britain without a class or civil war. William Smith O'Brien became a political exile in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.

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Riders of Time
 
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Dame Mabel Brookes reflects on some key people and events in Australian colonial history.

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