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The Poimenas Part B - superb collection of day walks
Added: Jul 11, 2025
 
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The Poimenas - companions of the Tasmanian mountains known collectively as the Abels.

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Shades of Old Hobart Town
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Interest Hobart history-related topics drawn from radio broadcasts.

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Urchin Convicts - the Point Puer Boys in Van Diemen's Land
Added: Jun 5, 2025
 
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In the early 19th century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over 2000 boys were transported from the streets of London to the Point Puer Boys Establishment at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.

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Flash Jim
 
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The story of James Hardy Vaux, convict and writer of Australia's first dictionary. If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly' or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a an Australian colonial convict of old.

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Flinders - used
 
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A biography of explorer Matthew Flinders.

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Floating Prisons - Irish Convict Hulks and Voyages to New South Wales 1823-1837
 
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Looking deeply into Ireland's penal administration, divided society, and the convict voyages, Anne McMahon draws conclusions that will change many assumptions about Australia, Ireland and the British Empire.

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Fonthill - used book
 
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The fascinating story of the Tasmanian colonial property Fonthill in the Midlands, and the three families - Tabarts, Burburys, Harveys - that have dominated its stewardship over almost 175 years.

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Footprint of Consequence - memories of a young Englishwoman at Cape Grimm
 
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In 1966 Brigit Fleming Smith, a young Englishwoman, married an Australian from Victoria who had recently bought enough shares in the old Chartered Land Company of VDL to give him overall control in farming Woolnorth at Cape Grim in Tasmania's north-west.

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For the Love of Food - stories & recipes from extraordinary Tasmanians
 
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This beautifully designed book tells the stories of 41 Tasmanians whose lives have been shaped by their passion for food, including gourmet farmer Matthew Evans, Kirsha Kaechele (Feast Curator at MONA and wife of MONA owner David Walsh), and Luke Burgess (Garagistes).

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For the Record - used
 
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James Bennell's buildings in early Launceston, northern Tasmania.

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For the Term of His Natural Life - Text Classic with introduction by Rohan Wilson
 
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A masterpiece in style and scope, Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life is an ambitious tale of tragedy, redemption, and the ugliness and resilience of man.

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Forgotten Corners - Essays in Search of an Island's Soul
 
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For the author, Pete Hay, home matters, in this case Tasmania. He might be descended from a Point Puer convict boy and be the son of a legend of Australia's 2/40th 'Tasmanian' Battalion, but he does not claim belonging to Tasmania as a birthright: "You don't inherit a place" he tells us, "you commit to it."

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Forgotten War - used
 
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Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. Why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists? Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier war now than it was one hundred years ago?

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