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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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The French Reconnaissance – Baudin in Australia 1801–1803 | Frank Horner | 1987 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print] See details
The French Reconnaissance – Baudin in Australia 1801–1803 | Frank Horner | 1987 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

An account of Nicolas Baudin's two-year scientific expedition to the coasts of Australia. Baudin commanded two ships — the Géographe and the Naturaliste — on a voyage commissioned by Napoleon to survey the Australian coastline and collect scientific specimens. The expedition spent considerable time in Van Diemen's Land, where Baudin's interactions with the Aboriginal population were documented in detail by the expedition's scientists, and where he encountered Matthew Flinders in Encounter Bay in April 1802 — a meeting that has become one of the most discussed moments in Australian exploration history.

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The Great Race - used See details
The Great Race - used
The race between Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Englishman Matthew Flinders to chart the map of Australia. USED.
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The Great Scourge See details
The Great Scourge
The Great Scourge tells the history of the infantile paralysis or polio epidemic 1937-1938 in Tasmania.
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The Hamilton Literary Society 120 Years On See details
The Hamilton Literary Society 120 Years On
A history of Tasmania's Hamilton Literary Society from 1990 to 2009.
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The History of Tasmania - John West See details
The History of Tasmania - John West
A 2-volume 1966 facsimile edition of John West's History of Tasmania, originally published in 1852.
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The History of Van Diemen's Land See details
The History of Van Diemen's Land
The History of Van Diemen's Land from the year 1824 to 1835 inclusive during the administration of Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur by Henry Melville, this edition edited with commentary and introduction by George Mackaness.
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The Huon Pine Story - Garry Kerr - Tasmanian Timber History See details
The Huon Pine Story - Garry Kerr - Tasmanian Timber History

An extensively researched, definitive history detailing the rugged harvest, river trade, and practical utilization of Huon pine—the iconic timber unique to the wild rivers and rainforests of western Tasmania.

Looking for the clothbound hardback library edition? View our Hardcover Edition of The Huon Pine Story here.

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The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth See details
The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth
The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth, Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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The Killing at Risdon Cove See details
The Killing at Risdon Cove
A re-examination of the much written about but little documented aboriginal massacre at Risdon Cove in 1804.
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The King Billy Story – A History of the Harvesting of the Tasmanian King William Pine | Patrick Howard | 2023 [NEW – SC] See details
The King Billy Story – A History of the Harvesting of the Tasmanian King William Pine | Patrick Howard | 2023 [NEW – SC]

Patrick Howard's history of the harvesting of the King William Pine — Athrotaxis selaginoides — one of Tasmania's most distinctive and ancient native conifers, endemic to the island's cool temperate rainforests and alpine areas, and historically one of its most prized timbers. King Billy pine grows slowly over centuries in some of Tasmania's most remote country — the west coast, the Tarkine, the highland lakes area and the south-west.

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