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The Shipping History of the Bass Strait Crossing

A booklet that chronicles some of the regular ships that ferried passengers and cargo across Bass Strait, between Tasmania and the Australian mainland.

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The Sooterkin | Tom Gilling | 1999 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Set in early 19th century Hobart Town, The Sooterkin is a darkly comic novel about a convict woman who gives birth to a creature that may or may not be human — a being the colonists cannot categorise and don't know what to do with. Tom Gilling uses the premise to examine colonial society's obsessions with classification, propriety and the fear of the strange in Van Diemen's Land.

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The Sound of One Hand Clapping

In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, Sonja's mother walked into a blizzard never to return.

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The Sparkle Pages - used

'Is marriage just a series of texts about where the children are and whether we need milk until one of you dies?'

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The Square Up by SJ Brown |Used SC|

The 4th novel in the Tasmanian Detective Inspector Mahoney crime fiction series.

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The Story of Holy Trinity Church, Cressy 1858-1958 - Centenary History by Karl von Stieglitz [Vintage Softcover Booklet]

Karl von Stieglitz's 1958 centenary history of Holy Trinity Church, Cressy, consecrated in 1858 by Bishop Francis Russell Nixon in Tasmania's Norfolk Plains district.

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The Story of North Down 1826-1910

A local Tasmanian family history from 1966, republished in 2023 to celebrate the bicentennial of the Thomas family arriving in Van Diemen's Land in February 1824.

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The Story of Tasmanian Aboriginals: TMAG Pictorial Record (Truganini / King Billy) - 1960 Vintage (Used)

This vintage TMAG booklet serves as an important mid-twentieth-century pictorial and historiographical record of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. It compiles historical commentary alongside archival photographic plates, sketches, and portraits from the museum's early collections.

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The Story of The Port of Launceston

A history of the Port of Launceston Authority and the development of shipping on the Tamar in northern Tasmania, by Sir Raymond Alfred Ferrall CBE (1906–2000) — a prominent Launceston businessman and Warden of the Port of Launceston Authority, for which he was made CBE in 1969.

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The Straitsfolk - John Scott and his Tasmanian Aboriginal Family, David Howie and his Aboriginal Associates

British sealer John Scott arrived in Bass Strait in 1806 and had children with at least three Tasmanian Aboriginal women, fathering at least nine children before drowning off King Island in 1843. Scottish-born David Howie, appointed Constable of the Straits, patrolled Bass Strait and King Island; in 1845 he played a key role in the aftermath of the Cataraqui disaster. This book traces the lives and Tasmanian Aboriginal descendants of both men, drawing together family trees, John Scott's own diary, and the wider Bass Strait sealing community of the 19th century.

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