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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This little cookbook includes 150 practical recipes from colonial Tasmanian times plus historical photographs, convict rules and rations and the unabridged story of Bessie Baldwin, convict cook to Governor Sir John Franklin.
The author NJB Plomley draws together the observations on the Aborigines made by all the known visitors to Tasmanian shores prior to 1803 - the voyagers Tasman, Marion du Fresne, Furneaux, Cook, Bligh, Cox, Hayes, Bass and Flinders, and the great French expeditions led by D'Entrecasteaux (1792, 1793) and Baudin (1802)..
Local historian Garry Richardson's history of European settlement at St Helens on Tasmania's East Coast, in two parts. Part One covers the town and Georges Bay itself. Part Two, St Helens Mines, is a detailed record of the district's tin mining industry.