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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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This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited See details
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
A revised history of the relationship between Indigenous Australians and early settlers, with a focus on those men and women who fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites.
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To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 1993 [HCDJ] See details
To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 1993 [HCDJ]

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.

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To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 2012 [SC] See details
To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 2012 [SC]

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.

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To Solitude Consigned – The Tasmanian Journal of William Smith O'Brien 1849–1853 | Richard Davis (Ed.) | 1995 | Limited First Edition 453/500 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good] See details
To Solitude Consigned – The Tasmanian Journal of William Smith O'Brien 1849–1853 | Richard Davis (Ed.) | 1995 | Limited First Edition 453/500 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

The Tasmanian journal of William Smith O'Brien, covering his years as a political exile in Van Diemen's Land from 1849 to 1853. Edited by Richard Davis and published in 1995 as a limited first edition of 500 numbered copies. O'Brien was one of the most prominent figures in the Young Ireland movement — a Protestant Irish nationalist and Member of the Westminster Parliament who led the failed 1848 rebellion against British rule.

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Touring Tasmania in the 1880s See details
Touring Tasmania in the 1880s
The newspaper articles of special correspondent Theophilus Jones who travelled extensively through Tasmania during the 1880s.
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Two Voyages to the South Seas – Astrolabe 1826–1829 & Zélée 1837–1840 | Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1987 | Signed by Translator [USED – HCDJ – Slipcase – Very Good] See details
Two Voyages to the South Seas – Astrolabe 1826–1829 & Zélée 1837–1840 | Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1987 | Signed by Translator [USED – HCDJ – Slipcase – Very Good]

An English translation of Jules Dumont d'Urville's accounts of his two great South Seas voyages — the Astrolabe voyage of 1826–1829 and the Zélée voyage of 1837–1840 — published by Melbourne University Press in 1987 in two volumes with slipcase. D'Urville was one of the most significant French naval explorers of the 19th century.

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Unearthed - Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island - used See details
Unearthed - Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island - used
Aboriginal Tasmanian descendants are still living on Kangaroo Island today and this book is their story.
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Unnecessary Wars See details
Unnecessary Wars
Tasmanian-based historian Henry Reynolds shows how the Boer War left a dark and dangerous legacy, demonstrating how those beliefs have propelled Australia into too many unnecessary wars – without counting the cost.
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UpRiver – Untold Stories of the Franklin River Activists | Alice Hungerford | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
UpRiver – Untold Stories of the Franklin River Activists | Alice Hungerford | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

An oral history of the Franklin River campaign, told through interviews with the people who took part in the blockade and the broader fight to stop the damming of the Franklin River. Where Wild Rivers captured the campaign through Peter Dombrovskis's photographs and Bob Brown's words, UpRiver tells the story from a different angle — the voices of the ordinary people who travelled to South West Tasmania, joined the blockade, and were arrested for it.

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Van Diemen Anthology 2019 See details
Van Diemen Anthology 2019
A selection of the best entries from the Van Diemen Anthology competition in 2018-2019 for articles on an aspect of Tasmanian history.
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