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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 Peaks of Lyell - softcover See details
The Peaks of Lyell - softcover

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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The Prince and the Assassin - Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror See details
The Prince and the Assassin - Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror
The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest.
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The Remarkable Captain James Kelly of Van Diemen's Land See details
The Remarkable Captain James Kelly of Van Diemen's Land
The story of James Kelly, the son of a convict woman, who became the first Australian born master mariner, a trader, explorer and entrepreneur.
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The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd - signed See details
The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd - signed
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in Tasmania and its largest private landowner.
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The Rock which makes Tasmania See details
The Rock which makes Tasmania
The Rock which makes Tasmania - Tasmania's Curse is a book about dolerite and Tasmanian geology.
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The Sarah Island Conspiracies See details
The Sarah Island Conspiracies
An account of twelve voyages to Macquarie Harbour and Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania between 1822 and 1838.
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The Scott Letters - VDL & Scotland 1836-55 See details
The Scott Letters - VDL & Scotland 1836-55
This book contains letters written in the early 1800s by James and George Scott, surveyors and early Tasmanian explorers, to their brother Thomas when he returned from Van Diemen's Land to live in Scotland.
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The Struggle for Self Government in Tasmania 1842-1856 See details
The Struggle for Self Government in Tasmania 1842-1856
Within the short formative period of Tasmania studied in this book, just about every conceivable constitutional conflict arose in relation to the growth of all the key institutions in the colony in Van Diemen's Land.
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The Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company at Beaconsfield 1877–1903 | Nick Langsford | 2024 See details
The Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company at Beaconsfield 1877–1903 | Nick Langsford | 2024

A detailed history of the Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company, which operated at Beaconsfield on the Tamar River from 1877 to 1903.

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The Tasmanian Gallows - used See details
The Tasmanian Gallows - used
A history of capital punishment in Tasmania, from the earliest days of the Van Diemen's Land penal colony when Thomas England was executed for stealing provisions, to the abolition of hanging for murder in 1968.
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