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.
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.
John Bufton's account of Tasmania's contribution to the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa — referred to here by the contemporary term "Transvaal War," not to be confused with the earlier First Boer War of 1880–81.
![Tasmanian Visions - the definitive study of Tasmania's landscape in writing, art and photography | Roslynn D. Haynes | 2006 [USED – HC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/tasmanian-visions-A7bylh.png "Tasmanian Visions - the definitive study of Tasmania's landscape in writing, art and photography | Roslynn D. Haynes | 2006 [USED – HC]")
![Tasmanian Weed Handbook - identification of main broad-leaf weeds of crops & pastures in Tasmania | Hyde-Wyatt & Morris | 1975 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/tasmanian-weed-handbook-IV6e37.png "Tasmanian Weed Handbook - identification of main broad-leaf weeds of crops & pastures in Tasmania | Hyde-Wyatt & Morris | 1975 [USED – SC]")
![Tasmanians in the Transvaal War - including photographs of individual soldiers | John Bufton | First Edition 1905, S.G. Loone [USED – HC – Rare]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/tasmanians-in-the-transvaal-sWgpJL.png "Tasmanians in the Transvaal War - including photographs of individual soldiers | John Bufton | First Edition 1905, S.G. Loone [USED – HC – Rare]")
![TASMAP Adamsfield – 1:25,000 Topographic Map | Series Map 4426 [NEW – Fold-out Map]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/Tasmap-Adamsfield-4426-blue-FyOL23.png "TASMAP Adamsfield – 1:25,000 Topographic Map | Series Map 4426 [NEW – Fold-out Map]")
