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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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History

Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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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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Anaesthesia - Awakening the Sleeping Giant
 
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This book is a celebration of William Russ Pugh's first anaesthetic in Launceston, Tasmania - a development which revolutionised medicine and surgery. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Around the Kitchen Table
 
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Around the Kitchen Table with the Missionary Sisters of Service - a portrait of the spirit and the heart of this Tasmanian-bred, Australian-grown Congregation of Religious Women. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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At the Movies
 
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The history of the Star Theatres of Tasmania.

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Ballycurragh to Tasmania 1649-1868 Grey & Innes families - Volume Two
 
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This is volume two of a narrative about three emmigrant Gray / Grey families and their new lives in their chosen home of Van Diemen's Land in the late 1830s, including the reasons which propelled each one into such a momentous change.

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Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land
 
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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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Black Founders - the unknown story of Australia's first black settlers
 
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This Australian history is based around the fact that black convicts were among the First Fleet settlers – something which profoundly complicates the understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia.

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Black Robinson - George Robinson - Protector of Aborigines
 
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This controversial study of George Augustus Robinson (or Black Robinson) first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man, long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines, to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect.

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Black Tuesday
 
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Memories from the mega fire in Hobart and South East Tasmania on 7 February 1967.

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Bound by Every Tie of Duty
 
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A biography of John Lewes Pedder, Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land from 1824 to 1854.

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