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.
In 1974, twenty-year-old Joanna and her husband Peter set out to turn a remote, neglected property on Tasmania's wild west coast into a working cattle enterprise. Three hours' drive from the nearest town at the end of a rough, sandy track, Top Farm offered no plumbing, no telephone and no neighbours.
A revised history of the relationship between Indigenous Australians and early settlers, with a focus on those men and women who fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites.
A scholarly paper by N.J.B. Plomley, a leading historian of Tasmanian Aboriginal historical sources, examining the portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people painted by Thomas Bock — a transported convict artist who went on to become a respected society portraitist in colonial Hobart.
This is the biography of Thomas Hainsworth, a coal miner who arrived in Tasmania from Yorkshire in 1854 and went on to become a mining / geology expert, educator, hospital founder and general pillar of society.
Fin has always been passionate about fishing, so when he discovers an illegal net full of undersized fish in Sydney’s northern waterways, his first reaction is to empty it.
When a Tasmanian sailing family anchors near an old wrecked hulk in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds, the kids discover a strangely abandoned campsite nearby, with plates of uneaten food and children’s toys still visible under the cockroaches and mould.