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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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The Dillingham Convict Letters: Van Diemen's Land 1831-1839 - Cypress 1970 (Used) See details
The Dillingham Convict Letters: Van Diemen's Land 1831-1839 - Cypress 1970 (Used)

This relatively scarce historical booklet compiles the original correspondence of William Dillingham, documenting his experiences from the prison hulks at Woolwich, his voyage aboard the transport ship Catherine Stewart Forbes, and his subsequent assignment in Sandy Bay and Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, between 1831 and 1839.

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The Discovery of Tasmania by HG Taylor HCDJ Cat & Fiddle Press 1973 See details
The Discovery of Tasmania by HG Taylor HCDJ Cat & Fiddle Press 1973

All the main discoveries of Tasmania from Tasman in 1642 to Baudin in 1804.

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The Evidence to the Bigge Reports – New South Wales Under Governor Macquarie | John Ritchie (Ed.) | 2-Volume Set | 1971 [USED – HCDJ] See details
The Evidence to the Bigge Reports – New South Wales Under Governor Macquarie | John Ritchie (Ed.) | 2-Volume Set | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]

The primary source documents underlying John Thomas Bigge's 1822–1823 reports to the British Government on the state of New South Wales under Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Bigge was commissioned to investigate the running of the colony — its convict management, land grants, public works, and Macquarie's controversial policies — and his reports had significant consequences for the direction of Australian colonial administration.

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The Fabrication of Aboriginal History – Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847 | Keith Windschuttle | 2003 [USED – HCDJ] See details
The Fabrication of Aboriginal History – Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847 | Keith Windschuttle | 2003 [USED – HCDJ]

Keith Windschuttle's controversial challenge to the accepted historiography of Tasmania's frontier period. Published in 2003, this first volume of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History focuses on Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1847 — covering the period of the Black War and the removal of the surviving Aboriginal population to Flinders Island.

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The Fatal Shore – A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787–1868 | Robert Hughes | 2003 [SC] See details
The Fatal Shore – A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787–1868 | Robert Hughes | 2003 [SC]

Robert Hughes's landmark history of convict transportation to Australia — from the First Fleet in 1787 through to the end of transportation in 1868. Hughes documented the full scale and brutality of the transportation system — the ships, the prisons, the assignment system, the floggings, the Norfolk Island hell and Port Arthur, and the lives of the men, women and children transported from Georgian Britain to the other side of the world.

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The First 100 Years of Launceston General Hospital See details
The First 100 Years of Launceston General Hospital
A history of Launceston General Hospital in northern Tasmania 1863-1963. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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The Forest Wars See details
The Forest Wars
Australian forestry industry research and policy expert Judith Ajani explains why there is conflict in Australia's native timber industry and how this can be resolved. Written prior to the 2007 Australian federal election.
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The Forests - used See details
The Forests - used
The Forests - the Tasmanian wilderness by Matthew Newton and Pete Hay, a great black/white photographic examination of forest activism.
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The Franklin Blockade See details
The Franklin Blockade
The story by The Blockaders of the direct action taken in the 1980s to prevent the damming of the Franklin River, one of Tasmania's great wilderness areas.
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The French Exploration of Australia See details
The French Exploration of Australia
A book about the French exploration of what became Australia, with special reference to Tasmania.
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