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.
Deborah J. Swiss traces the lives of four women transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 19th century — following them from their origins in Scotland and Ireland through the voyage, the assignment system, and their years in the colony.
An Australian sporting biography of Tom Wills, an early colonial cricket celebrity, who put together the Aboriginal Cricket Team set for Great Britain in 1868 and helped write the original Code for Australian Rules football.
A maritime biography of Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha, edited by Dan Sprod, with strong links to Tasmania, whaling and nineteenth-century seafaring beginning with his Royal Navy service in the Napoleonic Wars at the age of nine.
Rob Sloane's revised and updated edition of The Truth About Trout — first published in 1983 and considered one of the most insightful and practical books on trout fishing in Australia. Sloane's approach was always to challenge received wisdom about trout behaviour and fishing technique — the original title's premise being that much of what anglers believed about trout was incorrect or oversimplified.
FIRST PUBLISHED: Melbourne, Georgian House, 1951. First edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page black and white photographs by Norman Taylor, this book covers Wigram's fishing on Tasmania's rivers, including the Macquarie, Liffey and St Patrick's Rivers and the Break O'Day district.
When human remains are discovered in the wilds of the Tasmanian west coast, the dark past comes into the light of the present in this deeply moving novel from Lenny Bartulin.