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Building Stories Tasmania - Gossip, Ghosts & Good Times - Deb Huff |HC, new|
Added: Oct 31, 2026

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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My Kemp Ancestors - David Gatenby |Signed, new|
Added: Oct 23, 2026

My Kemp Ancestors traces six generations of David Gatenby's Kemp family line, opening on the Isle of Sheppey before following the family chapter by chapter from William Kemp and Amelia Fowler onwards.


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Riverine - Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley
Added: Sep 24, 2026

Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.


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Flash Jim
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 - The man who mapped Australia
The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.

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Flinders - used
A biography of explorer Matthew Flinders.

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Floating Prisons - Irish Convict Hulks and Voyages to New South Wales 1823-1837
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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Flotsam & Jetsam - Henry Button autobiographical fragments |SC|

Henry Button (1829–1914) was one of 19th-century Launceston's most prominent figures — rising from cub reporter to sole proprietor of the Launceston Examiner by 1887, and serving as Launceston alderman and mayor. He married Emma Glover, granddaughter of the celebrated colonial artist John Glover.


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Flying Bass Strait - stories of Tasmania's aviation history, from Lieut. Long's first crossing| James R Boag | 2013 [USED – SC – Rare]

Stories of the first air crossing of Bass Strait - between mainland Australia and Tasmania - and those who followed Lieutenant Long making it possible for regular air services to be established across Bass Strait. James R. Boag structures this book as a year-by-year chronicle of key events in Bass Strait aviation history, from 1914 to 1956, including aviation disasters.


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Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen by Patsy Adam-Smith |HCDJ 1969|

Patsy Adam-Smith collects the stories and traditions of Australia's railway workers — a subject close to her own upbringing as the child of Victorian railway workers, and one she returned to throughout her writing career. This was one of her earliest books, published not long after she left Hobart.


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Fonthill - used book
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
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 Forests – A History of the Tasmanian Forest Campaigns | Helen Gee (Ed.) | 2001 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

Helen Gee's history of the campaigns to protect Tasmania's native forests — from the early conservation battles of the 1960s and 1970s through to the sustained conflict over old-growth logging and wilderness that defined Tasmanian environmental politics through the 1980s and 1990s. The Tasmanian forest campaigns were among the most sustained and bitterly contested environmental struggles in Australian history.


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