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

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School Days, School Days See details
School Days, School Days
Tasmanian Government schooling from its beginnings - in the 1800s to early 1900s nearly every stable settlement in Tasmania with a population that included at least ten children aged between six and thirteen years eventually attracted a government-aided school.
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Search for the Tasmanian Tiger See details
Search for the Tasmanian Tiger
The history of the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger in Tasmania, from first contact with European settlers, their war against the thylacine, its slide toward extinction and its life in captivity.
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Seas No Longer Divide See details
Seas No Longer Divide
A history of the major engineering achievement of Bass Strait telephone communications between Tasmania and mainland Australia, 1920-1936.
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Shades of Old Hobart - vintage 1947 booklet See details
Shades of Old Hobart - vintage 1947 booklet
A vintage booklet paying tribute to some of the early colonial landmarks of southern Tasmania.
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Shades of Old Hobart Town See details
Shades of Old Hobart Town
Interest Hobart history-related topics drawn from radio broadcasts.
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Shadow of the Thylacine See details
Shadow of the Thylacine
Col Bailey tells of his epic search for the Tasmanian tiger, thought by many to be extinct.
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Solomon's Noose - used See details
Solomon's Noose - used
The true story of Solomon Blay the convict turned hangman who served as Her Majesty's hangman of Hobart for half a century.
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Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - hardcover See details
Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - hardcover
A beautiful facsimile edition of Louisa Anne Meredith's Bush Friends of Tasmania original published in 1860 with the 2nd volume following some 31 years later.
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Some Van Diemens Land Affairs See details
Some Van Diemens Land Affairs
Ralph Gowlland captures interesting aspects of Tasmanian history including: Bird Island Wreck Reef guano - Mason Pew - George III tragedy oatmeal and cocoa - Long Marsh Dam - Moore on the Pieman affair - Oatland Gaolkeeper - lead mine in northern Tasmania - Marsh Farm - overcrowded graveyards.
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South of the Southern Land See details
South of the Southern Land
An exploration of colonial Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania interweaving poetry, historic images and prose.
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