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 guide to 29 specific locations across Tasmania where you have a good chance of seeing native wildlife in the field — written by wildlife photographer Dave Watts and Cathie Plowman and published in 2008. Each location entry covers what you're likely to see there, the best time of day and year to visit, and practical notes on access
Tasmanian nurse Jessie Elizabeth Simons's first-hand account of her three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese during the Second World War — one of the Australian nurses captured in the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and held captive until the Japanese surrender in 1945.
Master Australian story telling... No holds are barred as the Cleary family attempts to put long-held tensions behind them to celebrate a milestone. What could possibly go wrong?
A detailed record of white shark interactions in Tasmanian waters from the establishment of the British colony in Van Diemen's Land through to the early 21st century — covering captures, sightings, encounters and attacks documented over nearly two centuries.
Between 1841 and 1853, nearly 250 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land for committing arson, a number out of all proportion to males transported for the same offence. Renowned Tasmanian historian Dianne Snowden explains why so many women resorted to arson as a desperate survival mechanism during the Great Famine, explores their motives, and follows their lived experiences both as convicts in the factory system and subsequently when set free in the colony.
A Tasmanian family history focusing on William Figg who was transported on board the convict ship Commodore Hayes, landing at Sullivans Cove, Van Diemen's Land in 1823.
From David Owen, the author of the Tasmanian Pufferfish crime / detective novels comes this stand-alone novella, with plenty of familiar landmarks to spot.
![Where to See Wildlife in Tasmania | Dave Watts & Cathie Plowman | 2008 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/where-to-see-wildlife-in-tasmania-Job7DA.png "Where to See Wildlife in Tasmania | Dave Watts & Cathie Plowman | 2008 [SC]")
![While History Passed | Jessie Elizabeth Simons | 1954 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/whilehistorypassed-CFR0N7.png "While History Passed | Jessie Elizabeth Simons | 1954 [USED – HCDJ]")
![White Pointer South – A Compendium of White Shark Encounters, Captures and Attacks in Tasmanian Waters | Chris Black | 2010 [HC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/white-pointer-south-EdVg8I.png "White Pointer South – A Compendium of White Shark Encounters, Captures and Attacks in Tasmanian Waters | Chris Black | 2010 [HC]")
