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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A story of freedom, forgiveness and finding the strength to break free. International bestselling writer Karen Viggers returns to remote Tasmania, the setting of her most popular novel The Lightkeeper's Wife.
A guidebook and activity book designed for children doing the Overland Track with their family — packed with colour photos, facts about the wildlife, plants and geology they'll encounter, and activities to keep younger hikers engaged on the trail.
A history of the Kettering–Oyster Cove area south of Hobart, by Julie Gardam. The district's history includes Oyster Cove itself — known today by its Aboriginal name, putalina — where, in 1847, the surviving Tasmanian Aboriginal people were relocated from Wybalenna on Flinders Island, following their earlier forced removal from their own country during the Black War.
The Painted Portrait Photograph in Tasmania looks at the interaction between portrait painting and photography in Tasmania during the last half of the 19th century.
A book about newspapers and the power of the press to sway opinion. The main narrative voice is that of W.C., a hapless war correspondent, posted to Tasmania to cover the conflict between the Pakana people of Lutruwita and the British, from 1814 to 1856.
The Peaks of Lyell was Geoffrey Blainey's first book, based on his University of Melbourne MA thesis and originally published in 1954. It tells the history of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and through it, of Queenstown and Tasmania's West Coast.
This outline of the history of the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement covers its founding on Sarah Island in 1822 as a place of banishment for the colony's most difficult convicts, its eleven-year reputation as one of the harshest penal settlements in the Australian colonies, and notable escapes including those of Matthew Brady and Alexander Pearce.
The true story of the 1829 convict mutiny aboard the brig Cyprus - seized at Recherche Bay while bound for Macquarie Harbour, and sailed across the Pacific under convict command. By Frank Clune and P.R. Stephensen.