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Tasmanian ANZACS Vol 1 - signed
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Those who served, their families and the impact of World War One - Volume I: the 12th and 52nd Battalions.

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Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin & Beyond - Essays and Poems
 
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This collection of essays and poems celebrates the 200th anniversary of the encounter in 1802 between explorers Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders off the shores of South Australia, and examines some of the cultural contexts of their voyages and the ramifications of their discoveries over the ensuing years.

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All Gunns Blazing
 
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A history of the business of J & T Gunn and the development of Launceston in the north of Tasmania, 1871-1997. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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American Citizens, British Slaves - Yankee political prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony
 
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This book tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1839-1840.

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Anaesthesia - Awakening the Sleeping Giant
 
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This book is a celebration of William Russ Pugh's first anaesthetic in Launceston, Tasmania - a development which revolutionised medicine and surgery. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land
 
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The work of printer and emancipist Andrew Bent and the freedom of the press in Van Diemen's Land.

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Around the Kitchen Table
 
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Around the Kitchen Table with the Missionary Sisters of Service - a portrait of the spirit and the heart of this Tasmanian-bred, Australian-grown Congregation of Religious Women. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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At the Movies
 
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The history of the Star Theatres of Tasmania.

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Australia's Birthstain - used hardcover
 
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The startling legacy of the convict era - Babette Smith's groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia, which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past.

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Ballycurragh to Tasmania 1649-1868 Grey & Innes families - Volume Two
 
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This is volume two of a narrative about three emmigrant Gray / Grey families and their new lives in their chosen home of Van Diemen's Land in the late 1830s, including the reasons which propelled each one into such a momentous change.

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Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land - used
 
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Where did the name Van Diemen's Land come from? How was it chosen? Were there any alternatives? And how did it obtain self-government and the new name of Tasmania?

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