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A broad collection of Tasmanian history books, spanning colonial settlement and Van Diemen's Land through to the state's more recent history. For town and district-specific histories, see our Local History section; for the stories of individual Tasmanians, see Biography.

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Early Tasmanian Bridges | Roy Smith | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

Roy Smith's history of the early masonry bridges built in Van Diemen's Land — examining their origins, construction and their remarkable resistance to Tasmanian flood events over more than a century of service. The bridges documented include the convict-built stone bridges that still stand across the island — the Ross Bridge (1836), the Richmond Bridge (1823, the oldest bridge in Australia still in use), and the Red Bridge in Campbell Town (1838), directly beside which The Book Cellar now operates.


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Early Van Diemen's Land 1835-1860 Sketches
Early Van Diemen's Land 1835-1860 sketches by Emma von Stieglitz.

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Earthly Secrets - What our planet has yet to tell us
In Earthly Secrets, Tasmanian geologist David Leaman strips a range of topics back to the knowledge we think we can be reasonably certain about, and then exposes the assumptions which are built in, to show how little we do actually know about our home - planet Earth.

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Echoes on the Mountain - used
Remarkable migrant stories from the Hydro villages of the Tasmanian Central Highlands.

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Edward Markham's Van Diemen's Land Journal 1833
Edward Markham's journal of his 1833 voyage to Van Diemen's Land, along with six historical essays covering the colonial times of Governor Collins, Governor Davey, Governor Sorell, Governor Arthur, Mrs JF Irvine's memories of Port Arthur and the "blacks", and smuggler Lieut Jeffreys RN.

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Effecting a Cure
Aspects of health and medicine in Launceston - Tasmanian medical history.

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Elizabeth Robertson's Diary - Norfolk Island 1845
Life on Norfolk Island in 1845 from a woman's perspective - Elizabeth White Robertson.

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Encountering Terra Australis
The Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders.

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Engraved in Memory
A comprehensive record of memorials in places of worship in the City of Launceston in northern Tasmania.

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Enterprise, Risk and Ruin - hardcover
The story of how the stagecoach developed from a small cottage industry to the bustling enterprise that played such a key role in the economic development of the colony of Van Diemen's Land and subsequently Tasmania.

Signed and numbered hardcover edition

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