Home :: Just Tassie Books :: History

New Arrivals

Shades of Old Hobart Town See details
Shades of Old Hobart Town
Added: Jun 7, 2025
 
(0 reviews)  
Interest Hobart history-related topics drawn from radio broadcasts.
Our price: AUD 55.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 5.00 )
Quantity
CSIRO at Sea See details
CSIRO at Sea
Added: Aug 11, 2025
 
(0 reviews)  
A history covering fifty years of marine science, encompassing: the field station Tasmania - Stowell - trout in Tasmania - Roy Downie - Derwent Hunter.
Our price: AUD 25.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 2.27 )
Quantity
Gladly Teach See details
Gladly Teach
Added: Aug 11, 2025
 
(0 reviews)  
A history of the Launceston Teachers' College 1948-1972.
Our price: AUD 45.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 4.09 )
Quantity

History

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

Products

Persistence Pays - Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal Hardcover See details
Persistence Pays - Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal Hardcover
 
(0 reviews)  
Persistence Pays tells of the discovery of Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal of his 1835 voyage from England to New Holland.
Our price: AUD 79.95
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 7.27 )
Quantity
Photographs by Spurlings See details
Photographs by Spurlings
 
(0 reviews)  
A book about Spurlings' photographs, which for nearly a century from the mid-1800s was synonymous with fine Tasmanian photography, remaining highly collectible today.
Our price: AUD 65.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 5.91 )
Quantity
Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land See details
Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
 
(0 reviews)  
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.
Our price: AUD 95.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 8.64 )
Quantity Out of stock
Pictorial Portrayal of Tasmania's Past from Beatties Studio See details
Pictorial Portrayal of Tasmania's Past from Beatties Studio
 
(0 reviews)  
Capturing the history of Tasmania in old photographs.
Our price: AUD 24.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 2.18 )
Quantity
Poles Apart - Fascination, fame and folly - softcover See details
Poles Apart - Fascination, fame and folly - softcover
 
(0 reviews)  
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.
Our price: AUD 50.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 4.55 )
Quantity
Port Arthur - a Story of Strength and Courage See details
Port Arthur - a Story of Strength and Courage
 
(0 reviews)  
Writer and resident of the Tasman Peninsula, Margaret Scott reflects on the year following the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur.
Our price: AUD 15.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 1.36 )
Quantity
Power in Tasmania - HEC See details
Power in Tasmania - HEC
 
(0 reviews)  
A book that considers the power and influence of the Hydro Electric Commission HEC in Tasmania.
Our price: AUD 22.50
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 2.05 )
Quantity
Prospecting the Pieman - George Campbell Meredith See details
Prospecting the Pieman - George Campbell Meredith
 
(0 reviews)  
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.
Our price: AUD 19.95
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 1.81 )
Quantity
Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission See details
Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission
 
(0 reviews)  
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. This is a USED book.
Our price: AUD 36.00
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 3.27 )
Quantity
Real Tassie Legends See details
Real Tassie Legends
 
(0 reviews)  
Chronicles of an earlier Tasmania.
Our price: AUD 39.99
including GST 10.00 % ( AUD 3.64 )
Quantity