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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The complete diary of the Reverend Robert Knopwood — the first chaplain of Van Diemen's Land, who arrived with the founding party of European settlers in 1803 and remained in the colony until his death in 1838. Knopwood kept a diary continuously from the moment of his arrival until near the end of his life — 35 years of daily observation.
The complete diary of the Reverend Robert Knopwood — the first chaplain of Van Diemen's Land, who arrived with the founding party of European settlers in 1803 and remained in the colony until his death in 1838. Knopwood kept a diary continuously from the moment of his arrival until near the end of his life — 35 years of daily observation.
A graphic novel... On the 5th of May 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, died of stomach cancer. Or did he?Little is known about the French Tasmanian colony of la Ville de Baudin. Less still about its most mysterious colonist, Henri Maurice Claudet.
Leaving the urban grit of a terrace house in Sydney's inner west, Matthew Evans ended up on 20 acres in Australia's most southernmost shire; a smallholding farmer in Tasmania with no clue.
This arresting and beautiful picture book from Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks is a shimmering encounter with the Tasmanian tiger, a lament for a lost species, and a compelling evocation of the place of animals in nature.
Lois Nyman's history of the early European settlers along Tasmania's East Coast, from Bicheno and Swansea to Triabunna, Orford, St Helens and Falmouth. This is the original 1990 hardcover first edition.
An original 1990 softcover first-edition history of the early European settlers along Tasmania's East Coast, by Lois Nyman, covering towns including Bicheno, Swansea, Triabunna, Orford, St Helens and Falmouth.
The Eastern Shore: A History of Clarence by Alison Alexander traces the municipality on the eastern side of the River Derwent from Aboriginal and early European activity, through farming and small townships, to its development into a city.
The landscape of Tasmania's Great Western Tiers tells the history of the earth through the fossilised remains in the limestone karst, the plants and animals with their links to Gondwana, and the dramatic dolerite landforms that were taking shape when dinosaurs roamed the planet.