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Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC] See details
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 See details
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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Real Tassie Legends See details
Real Tassie Legends
Chronicles of an earlier Tasmania.
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Recollections from the Forest See details
Recollections from the Forest

75 years of forest service in Tasmania.

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Recollections of Life in Van Diemen's Land | William Gates (one of the Canadian Patriots) | George Mackaness (Ed.) | 1961 | Numbered 127/135 | Signed [USED – SC – Parts 1 & 2] See details
Recollections of Life in Van Diemen's Land | William Gates (one of the Canadian Patriots) | George Mackaness (Ed.) | 1961 | Numbered 127/135 | Signed [USED – SC – Parts 1 & 2]

One of the most unusual primary sources in Van Diemen's Land history — the first-hand account of William Gates, an American from New York who was transported to Hobart as a political prisoner in 1840. Gates was one of the "Canadian Patriots" — a group of Americans and Canadians who invaded Upper Canada in 1838 in sympathy with the Canadian Rebellions of 1837, supporting those seeking independence from British rule.

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Revolutionary Imperialist - William Smith O'Brien See details
Revolutionary Imperialist - William Smith O'Brien
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
Dame Mabel Brookes reflects on some key people and events in Australian colonial history.
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Ripper Tassie Tales See details
Ripper Tassie Tales
A combination of true and tall tales from Tasmania's rich pool of history and legend.
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Robert Knopwood in Van Diemen's Land See details
Robert Knopwood in Van Diemen's Land
Robert Knopwood arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1804 to serve as chaplain to the colony.
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Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert See details
Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert
The Ross Bridge in the midlands of Tasmania is a beautiful structure in itself but the extraordinary carvings on each stone of each arch make it one of the most remarkable pieces of convict art in Australia. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Sanders DFC Out of the Darkness - used See details
Sanders DFC Out of the Darkness - used

The story of World War II Bomber Command as told by Lancaster navigator, Tasmanian Max Sanders. 

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Sarah Island - used See details
Sarah Island - used
An account of the convict settlements of Sarah Island, west coast Tasmania from 1822-1832 and 1846-1847.
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