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The Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company
Added: May 5, 2024
 
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The history of a magnificent gold mine at Beaconsfield 1877-1903.

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From Horses to Horse Power
Added: Mar 9, 2024
 
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A nostalgic photographic exploration of Tasmania's transportation evolution from horses to horse power.

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History

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

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Callaghan & Batman
 
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Callaghan & Batman considers the historical police evidence as to whether convict woman Eliza Callaghan was hidden by John Batman at Ben Lomond in Van Diemen's Land in 1825. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield
 
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I Had A Quid to Get - a book recalling the days around osmiridium mining at Adamsfield 1925 and other Tasmanian stories. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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The Remarkable Captain James Kelly of Van Diemen's Land
 
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The story of James Kelly, the son of a convict woman, who became the first Australian born master mariner, a trader, explorer and entrepreneur.

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150 Years of Railways in Tasmania - softcover
 
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A comprehensive and well illustrated history of Tasmanian railways.

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First Views of Lake St Clair - John Skinner Prout & Morton Allport
 
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In 1862 the artist John Skinner Prout published an account of his 1845 trip to Lake St Clair. In 1863, his student and photographer Morton Allport travelled to Lake St Clair and using the new 'dry plate' technique, achieved the first photographic record of the area - Tasmania's first wilderness photographs.

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Houses & Estates of Old Glamorgan
 
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A revised, updated and enlarged selection of Glamorgan municipality heritage properties on Tasmania's east coast.

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La Trobe - Traveller Writer Governor
 
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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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South of the Southern Land
 
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An exploration of colonial Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania interweaving poetry, historic images and prose.

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The Wesleyans of Port Arthur
 
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The legacy of the Wesleyan missionaries at Port Arthur Penal Settlement and Point Puer Juvenile Prison on the Tasman Peninsula in Van Diemen's Land 1833 - 1843.

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Dogs in Van Diemen's Land
 
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The adorable, the mischievous and the downright nasty dogs of early Tasmania.

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