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.
An exploration of subterranean Hobart. The rich and colourful history of the once open but now buried waterways – including the Hobart Rivulet, Domain Park Rivulet, and Sandy Bay – Wellington Rivulet.
This award-winning history (Non-Fiction Award, 2004 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) tells the story of Tasmanian Aboriginal women taken to Kangaroo Island by sealers in the early nineteenth century, the cross-cultural community they formed decades before South Australia's official settlement, and their descendants' ongoing journey to reclaim a heritage many grew up unaware of.
Tasmanian-based historian Henry Reynolds shows how the Boer War left a dark and dangerous legacy, demonstrating how those beliefs have propelled Australia into too many unnecessary wars – without counting the cost.
A generation like no other - the story of the 2/40th Battalion in WWII - largely made up of men from Tasmania, many of whom perished on the Thai-Burma railway POW camp.