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.
Backpack Jack and Bella are off on an epic Tasmanian adventure. They have only a compass and torch to guide them. Oh, and a talking Wombat named Wellington.
A glossary of words, phrases and expressions specific to Tasmania — compiled by Maureen Brooks and Joan Ritchie and published by Oxford University Press in 1995. Tasmania has its own distinct vocabulary, shaped by its convict history, its isolation from the mainland, its particular environment and the communities that developed here.
Brian and David Cadle's practical guide to trout fishing in Tasmania — written by two experienced Tasmanian anglers and aimed specifically at those fishing Tasmanian waters rather than a general Australian audience.
The story of more than one hundred and twenty mostly Tasmanian men who signed up with Norwegian whaling ships in the 1920's for "the adventure of their lifetime" hunting the great mammals in Antarctic waters.
The book accompanying a TMAG exhibition in which 20 Palawa artists and cultural practiitioners responded to coming face to face with some of their Tasmanian aboriginal cultures' treasures for the first time.
The story of Tazzie — a Tasmanian native hen who can't quite get her running right, even though running is what native hens do best. The Tasmanian native hen (Tribonyx mortierii) is a flightless bird found only in Tasmania — endemic to the island and one of its most distinctive wildlife characters.