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.
Two of Harry O'May's histories of Tasmanian maritime life bound together in one volume — Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town and Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land. O'May was one of the most diligent historians of Hobart's seafaring past — he documented the ships, the masters, the trades and the men of the Derwent and the southern seas in a series of books published from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Dodging ships and weathering gales, the small ships were the lifeblood of Tasmania's islands, bringing in the necessities of life and taking away island produce including livestock, dairy produce and mutton birds in season.
Published privately by the author in 1991 to mark 150 years of the Clark family's settlement at Woodside in the Huon Valley, this traces the family from the earliest land alienation and settlers in the valley, through successive generations of the Clark family and the families who married into it — among them John and Ann Kellaway of the neighbouring property Woodstock, and the Schenck, Ballantyne and Gulliver families.
King Island, in Bass Strait, has been the site of over 60 shipwrecks and more than 800 lives lost, including the Cataraqui (1845, Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, over 400 dead), the convict ship Neva (1835, 218 lost) and the British Admiral (79 lost).
A photographic record of Wychwood — the garden created by Karen Hall and Peter Cooper near Moles Creek in northern Tasmania. Wychwood was developed over many years from farmland into an extensive garden that became one of the most visited private gardens in Tasmania — known for its use of structure, stone, water and a wide range of plants suited to the cool Tasmanian climate.
Well known amateur historian and enthusiastic collector of historical photographs, Colin Dennison has compiled a street-by-street review of Australia's second oldest capital city, Hobart in Tasmania.
A comprehensive, meticulously researched history documenting the 1804 British establishment and foundational settlement of northern Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) at Port Dalrymple.
![Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land | Harry O'May | c.1950s [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/wooden-hookers-whalers-cV5bxo.png "Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town & Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land | Harry O'May | c.1950s [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
![Wychwood – One of Tasmania's Most Celebrated Gardens | Karen Hall & Peter Cooper | 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/wychwood-MKGTO1.png "Wychwood – One of Tasmania's Most Celebrated Gardens | Karen Hall & Peter Cooper | 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
