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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Bill Gammage explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. This is a USED book.
A woman overshadowed by history steps back into the light. Artist Elizabeth Gould spent her life capturing the sublime beauty of birds the world had never seen before, but her legacy was eclipsed by the fame of her husband, John Gould.
Between 1825 and 1831, close to 200 British colonists and around 1,000 Aboriginal Tasmanians died violently in what became known as the Black War — the most intense and sustained frontier conflict in Australian history. Nicholas Clements takes a different approach to this history from most accounts.
When a school group of teenage girls goes missing in the remote wilderness of Tasmania's Great Western Tiers, the people of Limestone Creek are immediately on alert.
On 12 October 1973 the Blythe Star left Hobart for King Island with a cargo of fertiliser and beer. Fourteen hours later it sank without warning. Its crew of ten made it into a life raft, destined to drift for eight days around southern Tasmania.
![The Black War – Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Nicholas Clements | 2014 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/black-war-5Io7Zy.png "The Black War – Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania | Nicholas Clements | 2014 [SC]")
![The Blythe Star Tragedy - how indifference and negligence sank a ship and cost three men their lives | Michael Stoddart | 2022 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/blythe-star-tragedy-twKh3s.png "The Blythe Star Tragedy - how indifference and negligence sank a ship and cost three men their lives | Michael Stoddart | 2022 [USED – SC]")
