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.
Meg Bignell's second novel — set in a fictional small Tasmanian coastal community where nothing much happens and everything matters. A woman who has always run from anything too real finds herself stranded in Nowhere River — a ramshackle town on the edge of nowhere, full of characters who've also washed up there for their own reasons.
Paul Helleman's account of deaths and disappearances in Tasmania's national parks, reserves and wild places — covering incidents from across the island's wilderness areas, indexed and thoroughly researched. The book documents what can go wrong when people venture into Tasmania's bush and mountains: walkers lost on the Overland Track, incidents in the Southwest, disappearances never resolved, and the search and rescue operations that followed. signed
The formation and development of the Country Rifle Clubs, the Auxiliary Force, the 3rd Battalion, the Tasmanian Rangers, the 12th Battalion, and the 12th/50th Battalion, 2nd AIF, from their formation on the North West and West Coast of Tasmania in 1886 until their disbandment in 1945.
Running away from the mainland was supposed to make their lives better. But, for Isla and her brother, their mother's sadness and the cold, damp greyness of Hobart's stone streets seeps into everything.
Patsy Adam-Smith's history of Australia's railway age, drawing on the stories, memories and folklore of the men and women who worked the railways across the country.
Sarah Lloyd's exploration of myxomycetes — the slime moulds — published by the author in 2015. Myxomycetes are among the most extraordinary organisms in the natural world: neither fungi, nor plants, nor animals. They exist as single-celled amoebae, then aggregate into a flowing mass that moves as a single organism in search of food, before forming fruiting bodies to spread spores.