Building Stories Tasmania is an illustrated tour of Tasmania's most distinctive buildings - working waterfronts, former hydro sites, pubs, bookshops, hotels, theatres and small-town main streets - told through the people who built, worked and lived in them: convicts, clergy, brewers, booksellers and activists.
My Kemp Ancestors traces six generations of David Gatenby's Kemp family line, opening on the Isle of Sheppey before following the family chapter by chapter from William Kemp and Amelia Fowler onwards.
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.
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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.
A book that describes what exists and what doesn't exist in Tasmania's Tarkine, as used by aboriginal people, or within the wider Tarkine definition used by the tourism industry. An area of great beauty despite its industrial and other uses over 150 years.
A history of Taroona, the suburb on Hobart's eastern shore of the Derwent south of the city, compiled by the Taroona Historical Group and published in 1988. The book traces Taroona's transformation from early colonial farm land in 1808 through to the established garden suburb it had become by 1986 — covering the families, properties and development that shaped the area across nearly two centuries.
Paolo Giordano's semi-autobiographical novel Tasmania, captures the fear, anxiety, wonder and beauty of this time of uncertainty and upheaval, exploring how we can create and maintain relationships with other people when it feels increasingly difficult to connect.
Tasmania Living observes slow, sustainable living in Australia's southernmost region, showcasing architectural flair, reverence to style and design, passion for local community, and the integration of history and culture in contemporary homemaking practices.
Robert Wilfred "Bob" Baker (1917–1985) was a Tasmanian lawyer, legal scholar and politician. Born in Adelaide, his family moved to Tasmania in 1919; his father was involved in the founding of the Risdon zinc works.
Here are stories about the father-son descendants of Abraham Biggs, the author's great-great-grandfather, and their lives in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania which reflect Tasmania's political history.
![Taroona 1808–1986 – Farm Lands to a Garden Suburb | Taroona Historical Group | 1988 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/taroona-tFDvW3.png "Taroona 1808–1986 – Farm Lands to a Garden Suburb | Taroona Historical Group | 1988 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
