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From Convicts to Computers - Tasmanian Supreme Court See details
From Convicts to Computers - Tasmanian Supreme Court
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Two hundred years of the Tasmanian Supreme Court - a history by Justice Stephen Estcourt AM.
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The Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company See details
The Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company
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The history of a magnificent gold mine at Beaconsfield 1877-1903.
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From Horses to Horse Power See details
From Horses to Horse Power
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A nostalgic photographic exploration of Tasmania's transportation evolution from horses to horse power.
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Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles See details
Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles
 
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This book is about the 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this groundbreaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.
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Van Diemen's Women - A History of Transportation to Tasmania See details
Van Diemen's Women - A History of Transportation to Tasmania
 
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An in-depth account of what life was like for a woman transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and how a Draconian punishment for some became a life saving measure.
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Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission See details
Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission
 
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This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834, edited by NJB Plomley and republished in 2008.
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By Derwent Divided See details
By Derwent Divided
 
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By Derwent Divided tells what happened when the Lake Illawarra collided with Hobart's Tasman Bridge in the 1975 disaster. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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The Colonial Earth See details
The Colonial Earth
 
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Australia's colonial settlers and their positive attitudes toward preserving their environment. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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50 Historical Stories of Tasmania's West Coast See details
50 Historical Stories of Tasmania's West Coast
 
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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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American Citizens, British Slaves - Yankee political prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony See details
American Citizens, British Slaves - Yankee political prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony
 
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This book tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1839-1840.
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Real Tassie Legends See details
Real Tassie Legends
 
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Chronicles of an earlier Tasmania.
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Van Diemen's Land - hardcover See details
Van Diemen's Land - hardcover
 
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Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land, where they found a land of bounty, a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.
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Van Diemen's Land - softcover See details
Van Diemen's Land - softcover
 
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Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land, where they found a land of bounty, a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.
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