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.
A multi-generational history of the Holmyard family - from convict transportation to Van Diemen's Land, through the Female Factory and the Assizes, to their descendants in the Deloraine and Westbury districts of Tasmania. By Merlene Fawdry.
Kathy Gatenby's biography of Viv and Hilda Robey, whose family farmed the southern end of Maria Island until it became a national park in 1971 - one of the island's last farming families.
Nearly 6,000 children, many the children of convicts, passed through Van Diemen's Land (Tasmanian) Orphan Schools from 1828 to 1879. This book reveals some of their stories.
Pam Wood's historical novel based on the life of Henry Gardiner — the first European ferryman on the Arthur River in Tasmania's northwest wilderness, who operated the crossing from 1878 to 1913. Gardiner was born in London in 1834 and came to Tasmania's developing colony, eventually taking the ferryman's role on the remote Arthur River in the Tarkine — one of the most isolated positions in the colony.
Waldo's Wild Things is a children's animal picture book featuring Tassie the Devil, Sally the Seahorse, Quincy the Quoll and many more tenacious Tasmanian critters.
A Tasmanian geologist, describes 65 walks across southern Tasmania, from Mt Wellington and the Wellington Range through to the Tasman Peninsula. Each walk pairs track notes with the history — and at times the contested land-use issues — connected to the place.
Fifty walking trails from across Tasmania, ranging in length and difficulty and colour-coded by season — useful for planning walks at different times of year and knowing which trails are best suited to summer versus winter conditions.