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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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A Donation to the Colony – Epic Voyage on the Hannah: German & British Free Settlers and Their Contribution to Van Diemen's Land | Eva Meidl | 2004 [SC]
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A Donation to the Colony – Epic Voyage on the Hannah: German & British Free Settlers and Their Contribution to Van Diemen's Land | Eva Meidl | 2004 [SC]

Eva Meidl's account of the voyage of the Hannah — the ship that sailed from Liverpool in November 1850 carrying German and British free settlers to Van Diemen's Land, arriving in Launceston in March 1851. Among the passengers on the Hannah was Ludwig Becker — German artist, naturalist and explorer.

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Fight the Fiery Fiend - Colonial Fire Fighting 1803-1883
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Fight the Fiery Fiend - Colonial Fire Fighting 1803-1883
A history of how the early European settlers in Van Diemen's Land fought fires, including those on ships in the River Derwent. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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To Serve in a Distant Land
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To Serve in a Distant Land
The Tasmanian years of Bishop Francis Russell Nixon and Anna Maria Nixon, 1843-1863.
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Van Diemen's Land Revealed
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Van Diemen's Land Revealed
Flinders and Bass and their circumnavigation of the island that was to become Tasmania in the colonial sloop Norfolk 1798-1799.
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William Sorell in Van Diemen's Land
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William Sorell in Van Diemen's Land
A history of the colonial years of Van Diemen's Land under Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell, 1817-1824.
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100 Years - A centenary history of the Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania 1893-1993 See details
100 Years - A centenary history of the Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania 1893-1993

Richard Davis's centenary history of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania, founded in 1893. Softcover, 98 pages, illustrated, used.

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100 Years of Western Tasmanian Mining See details
100 Years of Western Tasmanian Mining

100 Years of Western Tasmanian Mining traces a century of mining on the west coast — from the district's earliest mineral discoveries, including tin at Mount Bischoff in 1871, silver-lead around Zeehan and Dundas in 1882, and the Mount Lyell copper field in 1883, through to the mining industry of the mid-1970s.

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366 Days of Tasmania Volume 1 - used See details
366 Days of Tasmania Volume 1 - used

A Tasmanian event of note for every day of the year.

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366 Days of Tasmania Volume 2 See details
366 Days of Tasmania Volume 2

A second volume of events from Tasmania's past to mark every day of a leap year (hence the 366 days).

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50 Historical Stories of Tasmania's West Coast See details
50 Historical Stories of Tasmania's West Coast
A collection of stories of life on Tasmania's rugged West Coast - focussing on three generations of West Coasters who lived and worked around the one-time boom mining town of Zeehan.
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