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

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Cleansing the Colony See details
Cleansing the Colony
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 See details
Closing Hell's Gates - the death of a convict station
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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Collection - used See details
Collection - used
"Collection" is a book that showcases the historical and natural history items held in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, TMAG in Hobart Tasmania.
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Compelled to Tiers See details
Compelled to Tiers
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 Hell See details
Convict Hell
Macquarie Harbour Van Diemen's Land 1822 - 1833: A Shot of History.
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Convict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory – Volume 2 | Alison Alexander & Alice Meredith Hodgson | 2018 [SC] See details
Convict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory – Volume 2 | Alison Alexander & Alice Meredith Hodgson | 2018 [SC]

The stories of 29 female convicts who spent time at Hobart's Cascades Female Factory.

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CSIRO at Sea See details
CSIRO at Sea
A history covering fifty years of marine science, encompassing: the field station Tasmania - Stowell - trout in Tasmania - Roy Downie - Derwent Hunter.
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Cypress Street Cemetery See details
Cypress Street Cemetery
A history of the Cypress Street Cemetery including a listing of those buried there.
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Damania See details
Damania
A small vintage book about the Hydro-Electric Commission, the environment and government in Tasmania.
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Dogs in Van Diemen's Land See details
Dogs in Van Diemen's Land
The adorable, the mischievous and the downright nasty dogs of early Tasmania.
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