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From Horses to Horse Power
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A nostalgic photographic exploration of Tasmania's transportation evolution from horses to horse power.

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

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Unearthed - the Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island
 
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Aboriginal Tasmanian descendants are still living on Kangaroo Island today and this book is their story.

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Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
 
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Abandoned Women - Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas s a rich and evocative account of the lives of women at the bottom of society two hundred years ago.

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A Compulsion to Kill - The History of Tasmania's Earliest Serial Killers
 
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A Compulsion to Kill is a dramatic chronological account of 19th-century Tasmanian serial murderers.

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Lifeblood - Tasmania's Hydro Power
 
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Tasmania generates more electricity per head of population than any place in the world except Norway, and 99% of that power is generated from clean, self-renewing water.

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Van Diemen's Land - An Aboriginal History
 
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A history of Aboriginal Tasmania from before the island was separated from mainland Australia through to the devastating settlement of Europeans, colonisation, warfare exile.

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Wrecked on Bruny Island
 
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The story of the huge storm of 1909 that wrecked three of Tasmania's finest vessels.

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Letters to Pituncarty Tasmania - signed
 
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Colonial correspondence of Christian Taylor Buist who lived at Pituncarty on the Macquarie River in Tasmania's Midlands, including letters from Ellinthorpe (sic) Hall, telling much of the local Taylor family history.

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Tasmanian Commemorative Medals and Medallions 1853-1990
 
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A collector's handbook, put together by Tasmanian numismatic consultant Roger McNeice.

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The Remarkable Captain James Kelly of Van Diemen's Land
 
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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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Mortmain - Facsimile collection of documents from Van Diemen's Land convict colony
 
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Mortmain - A collection of choice petitions, memorials and letters of protest and request from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land; written by divers persons, both eminent and lowly, and collected and transcribed from the originals by Eustace FitzSymonds, with numerous pages of the manuscripts shewn in facsimile. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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