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Shades of Old Hobart Town See details
Shades of Old Hobart Town
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Interest Hobart history-related topics drawn from radio broadcasts.
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Tales of Old Tasmania See details
Tales of Old Tasmania
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Historic stories from the early colonial days of Tasmanian settlement.
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Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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Poles Apart - Fascination, fame and folly - softcover See details
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 See details
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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Power in Tasmania - HEC See details
Power in Tasmania - HEC
 
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A book that considers the power and influence of the Hydro Electric Commission HEC in Tasmania.
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Prospecting the Pieman - George Campbell Meredith See details
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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Pubs and Publicans of Tasmania's Old West See details
Pubs and Publicans of Tasmania's Old West
 
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A comprehensive listing of the pubs of Tasmania's remote West Coast from the 19th century mining boom to more recent times.
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Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission See details
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. This is a USED book.
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Real Tassie Legends See details
Real Tassie Legends
 
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Chronicles of an earlier Tasmania.
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Reverend George Eastman - The Convicts' Good Parson See details
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 See details
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 See details
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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