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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
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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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Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
 
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This is a 1967 facsimile reprint of P.E.de Strzelecki's 1845 Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land accompanied by a geological map, sections and diagrams and figures of the organic remains. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Poles Apart - Fascination, fame and folly - softcover
 
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The Royal Society of Tasmania's extensive collection of polar material is the focus of this fascinating volume that sheds light on the folly as well as the fame of the explorers who ventured to the icebound continents.

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Prospecting the Pieman - George Campbell Meredith
 
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For seventeen weeks over the summer of 1876-77 George Campbell Meredith and his brother Owen prospected and trekked in the harsh country along the Pieman River on Tasmania's west coast.

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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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Real Tassie Legends
 
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Chronicles of an earlier Tasmania.

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Repression, Reform & Resilience
 
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A history of the Cascades Female Factory edited by Alison Alexander.

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Reverend George Eastman - The Convicts' Good Parson
 
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The story of a parson who believed that convicts in the later period of Van Diemen's Land's transportation era (1844-1870) could be reformed and who did all within his ability to help them achieve this lofty goal.

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Robert Knopwood in Van Diemen's Land
 
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Robert Knopwood arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1804 to serve as chaplain to the colony.

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Rossarden Echo of the Mountain - second edition
 
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A revised and updated edition of the popular Rossarden, Echo of the Mountain.

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Search for the Tasmanian Tiger
 
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The history of the thylacine or Tasmanian tiger in Tasmania, from first contact with European settlers, their war against the thylacine, its slide toward extinction and its life in captivity.

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