Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.
L.J. Morley's history of Tasmania's working trucks from 1909 to 1970 - from Mt Lyell mining trucks and Huon apple trucks to Hobart's fire engines and wartime army vehicles, with hundreds of photographs.
Rees Campbell, author of the bestselling Eat MORE Wild Tasmanian, turns her attention to Tasmania's off-shore islands. There are some 6,500 islands, islets, rocks and reefs around the state, and this book visits 40 of them — from the largest, Flinders Island, to the remote and uninhabited Pedra Branca and Mewstone in the Southern Ocean, to some of the smallest and closest, like the Harbour Islets in the state's far North West.
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Browse thousands of Tasmanian books at The Book Cellar - convict history, local and family history, Aboriginal Tasmania, maritime, art, nature and fiction, new and out of print. Books ship from Campbell Town, Tasmania.
Tasmanian children's stories set around Powranna, a small locality in Tasmania's Northern Midlands, near Longford. Illustrated throughout by the author.
In Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little Remains, the reader is taken on a journey exploring the tragic consequences of European settlement on this unique and misunderstood animal.
An illustrated reference on the thylacine, written by Dr Eric Guiler and Philippe Godard and published in 1998. The book moves through the species' anatomy and earliest traces, its last stronghold in Tasmania, the first eyewitness accounts, its depiction by early artists, the bounty-hunting era that drove it to extinction, its life in captivity, and the searches and expeditions mounted since.
Tasmanian Traveller re-tells for 6-9 year old children the story from a 19th century diary of a journey along the Midlands Highway between Hobart and Launceston.
Carrick is one of northern Tasmania's most historic villages, its identity long bound up with the Old Carrick Mill on the banks of the Liffey River. In this slim, locally produced vintage booklet, Mary Kinloch Whishaw traces the story of the settlement.
A comprehensive study of how the Tasmanian landscape has been seen and represented — through history, fiction, art, film and the accounts of travellers — by Roslynn Haynes, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and author of around ten books spanning literature, art and science. Still widely cited today in academic scholarship, the book traces themes from early colonial "picturesque" landscape painting through to the "Tasmanian Gothic" of prison narratives and contemporary film.
A guide to identifying the main broad-leaf weeds found in Tasmanian crops and pastures. Co-author Dennis Morris later worked with botanist Winifred Curtis on The Student's Flora of Tasmania, also in our stock.
A popular account of the furred land mammals, snakes and introduced mammals of Tasmania, including the thylacine, by Michael Sharland — Tasmanian journalist, photographer and ornithologist who wrote the Mercury's nature column under the pen name "Peregrine" for 60 years, from around 1921 to 1971.