A World Apart catalogues, for the first time in full, the Royal Society of Tasmania's collection of more than 950 watercolours, drawings and other works on paper, now held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.
A World Apart catalogues, for the first time in full, the Royal Society of Tasmania's collection of more than 950 watercolours, drawings and other works on paper, now held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.
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.
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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.
Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane's detailed history of Aboriginal Tasmania — covering more than 35,000 years of Aboriginal presence on the island from before its separation from mainland Australia through European contact, colonisation, the Black War, and the forced exile of the surviving Aboriginal population to Flinders Island.
An in-depth account of what life was like for a woman transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and how a Draconian punishment for some became a life saving measure.
Alan Villiers went to sea at 15, and became one of the last captains of a commercial square-rigged sailing ship. Vanished Fleets gathers his stories of Van Diemen's Land's maritime history — pirates, whalemen, escaped convicts, adventurers and pioneers.
Frank Bolt's photographic record of aspects of Tasmania that were disappearing at the time of publication — old buildings, rural structures, weathered farmhouses, abandoned machinery, forgotten corners of the landscape that were being lost to time, development and neglect.
One of Tasmania's most popular books of the past ten years is back in print with this softcover edition. Vanishing Towns provides a comprehensive examination of Tasmania's towns and settlements that are no longer (or never were) inhabited.
Michael Holmes's guide to the ghost towns and lost settlements of Tasmania — the places that once lived, occasionally thrived, and then disappeared, leaving varying degrees of evidence that they ever existed.
Veils and Tin Hats captures the history of the more than 200 Tasmanian nurses enlisted in Australian and British military forces during the Second World War.
![Van Diemen's Land – An Aboriginal History | Murray Johnson & Ian McFarlane | 2015 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/xctmpV44kt9.png "Van Diemen's Land – An Aboriginal History | Murray Johnson & Ian McFarlane | 2015 [NEW – SC]")
![Vanishing Tasmania – A Photographic Essay | Frank Bolt | 1992 | Signed Limited Edition No. 319/1250 [USED – SC – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/vanishing-tasmania-frank-bolt-319-w7hFEq.png "Vanishing Tasmania – A Photographic Essay | Frank Bolt | 1992 | Signed Limited Edition No. 319/1250 [USED – SC – Very Good]")
![Vanishing Towns – Tasmania's Ghost Towns and Lost Settlements – Hardcover Edition | Michael Holmes | 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/vanishingtowns2014-Q13lEP.png "Vanishing Towns – Tasmania's Ghost Towns and Lost Settlements – Hardcover Edition | Michael Holmes | 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
