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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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Van Diemen Anthology 2023 See details
Van Diemen Anthology 2023
Van Diemen Anthology 2023 - the eight best entries from the Van Diemen History Prize 2023.
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Van Diemen's Land - Hell in Heaven See details
Van Diemen's Land - Hell in Heaven
Van Diemen's Land - Hell in Heaven - history, adventure, drama, romance and humour.
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Van Diemen's Land - softcover See details
Van Diemen's Land - softcover
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land, where they found a land of bounty, a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.
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Van Diemen's Land - The Journey Home See details
Van Diemen's Land - The Journey Home
Written largely in verse, the author reflects on the Van Diemen's Land journeys of her colonial era ancestors.
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Van Diemen's Land Correspondents 1827–1849 – Letters to Sir William Hooker | T.E. Burns & J.R. Skemp (Eds.) | Frank Ellis (Ed.) | 1961 [USED – HC] See details
Van Diemen's Land Correspondents 1827–1849 – Letters to Sir William Hooker | T.E. Burns & J.R. Skemp (Eds.) | Frank Ellis (Ed.) | 1961 [USED – HC]

A collection of letters written from Van Diemen's Land to Sir William Hooker — director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew — between 1827 and 1849, compiled by T.E. Burns and J.R. Skemp. The correspondents include Ronald Campbell Gunn, Van Diemen's Land's most important colonial botanist; R.W. Lawrence; Jorgen Jorgenson — the extraordinary Dane who briefly became King of Iceland before being transported to Van Diemen's Land (the subject of Dan Sprod's biography The Usurper); and Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1837–1843.

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Van Diemen's Land | James Boyce | 2021 Reprint [USED – HCDJ – Good] See details
Van Diemen's Land | James Boyce | 2021 Reprint [USED – HCDJ – Good]

James Boyce's reinterpretation of Van Diemen's Land's early history — arguing that the convicts who arrived in the colony were transformed by the natural world they encountered, actively adapting to their new environment rather than simply enduring it. Almost half of all convicts transported to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land.

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Van Diemen's Women - A History of Transportation to Tasmania See details
Van Diemen's Women - A History of Transportation to Tasmania
An in-depth account of what life was like for a woman transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and how a Draconian punishment for some became a life saving measure.
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Vandemonians - the repressed history of colonial Victoria See details
Vandemonians - the repressed history of colonial Victoria
From award-winning author and historian Janet McCalman, the engrossing tale of Tasmanian convict settlers in colonial Victoria.
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Varieties of Vice-Regal Life See details
Varieties of Vice-Regal Life
Memoirs from Sir William and Lady Caroline Denison of their time in Van Diemen's Land when he was Governor, acting from 1847 as the interface between convict Van Diemen's Land and self-governing Tasmania.
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Voices of a University See details
Voices of a University
Celebrating 125 years at the University of Tasmania.
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