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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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Convict Hell
 
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Macquarie Harbour Van Diemen's Land 1822 - 1833: A Shot of History.

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Convict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory Volume 2
 
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The stories of 29 female convicts who spent time at Hobart's Cascades Female Factory.

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Convicts & Carriageways
 
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A history of Tasmanian road development up to 1880, including the use of convict labour. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Dogs in Van Diemen's Land
 
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The adorable, the mischievous and the downright nasty dogs of early Tasmania.

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Down Wapping - Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts
 
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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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Early Motor Touring in Tasmania
 
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Packed with black and white historic photos from the 1800s to the 1960s, this book captures the history of tourism across Tasmania with a focus on motoring, but also including other modes of transport.

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Earthly Secrets - What our planet has yet to tell us
 
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In Earthly Secrets, Tasmanian geologist David Leaman strips a range of topics back to the knowledge we think we can be reasonably certain about, and then exposes the assumptions which are built in, to show how little we do actually know about our home - planet Earth.

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Encountering Terra Australis
 
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The Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders.

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Enterprise, Risk and Ruin - hardcover
 
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The story of how the stagecoach developed from a small cottage industry to the bustling enterprise that played such a key role in the economic development of the colony of Van Diemen's Land and subsequently Tasmania.

Signed and numbered hardcover edition

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Enterprise, Risk and Ruin - the Stagecoach and the Development of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania
 
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How the stage coach played a pivotal role in the history and economic development of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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