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

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Against the Grain See details
Against the Grain
A memoir and history of life and work with the Huon pine loggers on the West Coast of Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin & Beyond - Essays and Poems See details
Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin & Beyond - Essays and Poems
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 See details
All Gunns Blazing
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 See details
American Citizens, British Slaves - Yankee political prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony
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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An Acorn Grows Among the Gums – The Presentation Sisters, Tasmania 1866–2006 | Noela M. Fox | 2006 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
An Acorn Grows Among the Gums – The Presentation Sisters, Tasmania 1866–2006 | Noela M. Fox | 2006 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Noela M. Fox's history of the Presentation Sisters in Tasmania — the Irish Catholic religious order that established itself in Hobart in 1866 and went on to found and run schools, hospitals and other works of mercy across the island over the following 140 years.

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Anaesthesia - Awakening the Sleeping Giant See details
Anaesthesia - Awakening the Sleeping Giant
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 See details
Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land
The work of printer and emancipist Andrew Bent and the freedom of the press in Van Diemen's Land.
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Annie Baxter's Memories See details
Annie Baxter's Memories
Annie Baxter's Memories of Tasmania and of the Macleay River and New England districts of New South Wales and of Port Fairy in the Western District of Port Phillip 1834-1848.
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Around the Kitchen Table See details
Around the Kitchen Table
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 – The History of the Star Theatres of Tasmania | Jenny Overton | 2020 [HC] See details
At the Movies – The History of the Star Theatres of Tasmania | Jenny Overton | 2020 [HC]

A history of the Star Theatre chain in Tasmania — the independent cinema network that operated picture theatres across the island through much of the 20th century.

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