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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 Knopwood Historical Lectures See details
The Knopwood Historical Lectures
A pioneer history of the Derwent's South Eastern Shore.
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The Last Man - a British Genocide in Tasmania See details
The Last Man - a British Genocide in Tasmania

Little more than 70 years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.

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The Last Tasmanian Tiger See details
The Last Tasmanian Tiger
The history and extinction of the thylacine.
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The Life of Matthew Flinders See details
The Life of Matthew Flinders
Biography of explorer Matthew Flinders.
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The Master of Hell’s Gates See details
The Master of Hell’s Gates
Captain William Kinghorne (1796 - 1878) navigated some of the most treacherous waters in the world.
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The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price - A voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800 See details
The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price - A voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800

John Washington Price was just 21, and recently graduated from Dublin's College of Surgeons, when he sailed as ship's surgeon aboard the transport Minerva from Cork to Sydney in 1799, carrying 200 convicts. Many were United Irishmen transported for their role in the 1798 Rebellion, including the rebel leader General Joseph Holt.

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The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited Queenstown, Tasmania See details
The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited Queenstown, Tasmania

An updated corporate booklet giving an overview of the work and structure of The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited Queenstown, Tamania.

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The National Trust in Tasmania | J.N.D. Harrison & Frank Bolt | 1977 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good] See details
The National Trust in Tasmania | J.N.D. Harrison & Frank Bolt | 1977 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

J.N.D. Harrison's survey of properties considered by the National Trust in Tasmania as historically significant — photographed throughout by Frank Bolt, who also produced Vanishing Tasmania. Published in 1977, the book documents the Trust's assessment of Tasmania's historic built heritage at that time — the properties the National Trust considered worthy of protection and preservation.

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The Old Kirk and St. Andrew's Church, Launceston See details
The Old Kirk and St. Andrew's Church, Launceston

An account of the people and events in the life of The Old Kirk and St. Andrew's Church, Launceston.

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The Peaks of Lyell - hardcover See details
The Peaks of Lyell - hardcover

The Peaks of Lyell was Geoffrey Blainey's first book, based on his University of Melbourne MA thesis and originally published in 1954. It tells the history of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and through it, of Queenstown and Tasmania's West Coast.

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