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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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Aurora Australis 1908-09 See details
Aurora Australis 1908-09
A book about the first book to be wholly published within the Antarctic region - from Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-0 - including a facsimile of the original book.
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Australia's Birthstain - used hardcover See details
Australia's Birthstain - used hardcover
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 See details
Ballycurragh to Tasmania 1649-1868 Grey & Innes families - Volume Two
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 See details
Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land - used
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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Beneath the Peak of Lyell See details
Beneath the Peak of Lyell
The Mount Lyell mines and their 2ft gauge tramways - a history.
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Bishop of Tasmania's Visit to Bass Strait - The Cruise of the Beacon - association copy See details
Bishop of Tasmania's Visit to Bass Strait - The Cruise of the Beacon - association copy

A first-edition copy of Bishop Nixon's narrative of his visit to the Bass Strait islands, featuring his original woodcut illustrations. This particular copy carries an interesting chain of Tasmanian ownership spanning over a century.

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Black Founders - used See details
Black Founders - used
The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers. This Australian history is based around the fact that black convicts were among the First Fleet settlers – something which profoundly complicates the understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia.
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Black Tuesday See details
Black Tuesday
Memories from the mega fire in Hobart and South East Tasmania on 7 February 1967.
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Blockade See details
Blockade
Two weeks at the Franklin River Protest in words and photographs.
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Bobby Knopwood and his Times See details
Bobby Knopwood and his Times
Bobby Knopwood and his Times - from the diaries of 1804-8,1814-17 by the Rev. Robert Knopwood, M.A., Chaplain to Lieutenant-Governor Collins, the founder of Hobart - compiled and edited by Mabel Hookey.
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