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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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Child of Gondwana - the geological making of Tasmania
 
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A guide to the unique geology of Tasmania written for everyone.

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Cleansing the Colony
 
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The little known story of the more than one hundred people transported from New Zealand to Van Diemen's Land.

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Closing Hell's Gates - the death of a convict station
 
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Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sentence) rather than endure the hardships and privations of the penal settlement on Sarah Island.

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Compelled to Tiers
 
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The gripping true account of an escaped convict's survival amidst the wilderness of 19th century Tasmania - bushranger, Daniel Priest.

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Convict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory Volume 2 - used
 
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The stories of 29 female convicts who spent time at Hobart's Cascades Female Factory.

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Convicts & Carriageways
 
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A history of Tasmanian road development up to 1880, including the use of convict labour. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Cypress Street Cemetery
 
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A history of the Cypress Street Cemetery including a listing of those buried there.

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Dogs in Van Diemen's Land
 
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The adorable, the mischievous and the downright nasty dogs of early Tasmania.

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Down Wapping - Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts
 
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Wapping was a working class residential district which lay on either side of the Hobart Rivulet, and in the latter half of the 19th century was widely regarded by Hobart's upper crust as the city's worst slum. This history looks beyond the stereotype and into the reality of what was once Wapping. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Early Motor Touring in Tasmania
 
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Packed with black and white historic photos from the 1800s to the 1960s, this book captures the history of tourism across Tasmania with a focus on motoring, but also including other modes of transport.

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