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.
Frank Bolt's compilation of diary accounts and primary source material documenting the founding of Hobart Town — the establishment of the European settlement on the Derwent River in 1803 and 1804 by Lieutenant David Collins and his party.
A photo-illustrated booklet first published to raise awareness of the Tasmanian wilderness regions under threat by construction of hydro-electric dams, and subsequently republished to celebrate the beauty of the Franklin and Gordon rivers running free and the Australians who fought for this.
In this exciting interactive history series choose your own destiny and step into the shoes of an Irish girl making her way from London to Australia and Van Diemen's Land in 1825.
J.S. Cumpston (1909–1986) wrote this account of the earliest European visitors to the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait, covering exploration between 1797 and 1810 — including figures such as Matthew Flinders, George Bass and James Kelly.
A history of the Furneaux Group — the cluster of islands in eastern Bass Strait of which Flinders Island is the largest — covering the settlement, industries, shipwrecks, families and communities of the islands from early European contact through to the late 20th century.
The story of Andrew Gatenby, who emigrated from Wales in the 1820s and settled in Tasmania's Midlands district. He established the farm Barton and built the Pennyroyal Mill on Pennyroyal Creek, and the book traces his life and that of his descendants across nearly a century, drawn from a unique family archive of diaries, letters and documents.
The General examines the two visits Bruny d'Entrecasteaux's expedition made to Tasmanian waters, in the autumn of 1792 and the summer of 1793, as part of France's 1791 mission to the Western Pacific to search for the missing explorer La Pérouse and carry out a wider programme of scientific work.
Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness.