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.
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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.
Kris Gatenby's account of the unsolved 1921 murder of thirteen-year-old Chrissie Venn near North Motton, Tasmania - a case that has puzzled Tasmanians for over a century. Signed by the author.
Robert Hughes's landmark history of convict transportation to Australia — from the First Fleet in 1787 through to the end of transportation in 1868. Hughes documented the full scale and brutality of the transportation system — the ships, the prisons, the assignment system, the floggings, the Norfolk Island hell and Port Arthur, and the lives of the men, women and children transported from Georgian Britain to the other side of the world.
Australian forestry industry research and policy expert Judith Ajani explains why there is conflict in Australia's native timber industry and how this can be resolved. Written prior to the 2007 Australian federal election.
Between mainland Australia and Tasmania lie the islands of Bass Strait - cold, dark, pounded by atrocious weather and hardly ever visited. But they have long fascinated adventurer, bird watcher and media personality Michael Veitch.
A history of the merino and wool in Tasmania. The book traces the story from early Merino sheep and the Forlong family's records, through Tasmanian sheep studs and wool production across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, wool manufacturing and Tasmanian wool brokers, to a closing chapter of facts about sheep and wool.