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From Horses to Horse Power
Added: Mar 9, 2024
A nostalgic photographic exploration of Tasmania's transportation evolution from horses to horse power.
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History
Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.
Charles Davis - 150 Years
A 150-year corporate history of the Tasmanian firm of Charles Davis, subsequently to become the Harris Scarfe stores. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Down Wapping - Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts
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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The Prince and the Assassin - Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror
The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest.
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Van Diemen Anthology 2019
A selection of the best entries from the Van Diemen Anthology competition in 2018-2019 for articles on an aspect of Tasmanian history.
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Van Diemen's Land - softcover
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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The Fatal Shore
In 1787 the British Government sent a fleet of ships loaded with convicts to colonise Australia.
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La Trobe - Traveller Writer Governor
This lavishly illustrated biography of Charles Joseph La Trobe uncovers the man behind the public name, as not only an important colonial figure but an author and artist.
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Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land
Where did the name Van Diemen's Land come from? How was it chosen? Were there any alternatives? And how did it obtain self-government and the new name of Tasmania?
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