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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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Old Working Trucks of Tasmania - Tasmanian Truck History 1909 to 1970 | L.J. Morley | 2026 NEW SC
Added: Sep 18, 2026

L.J. Morley's history of Tasmania's working trucks from 1909 to 1970 - from Mt Lyell mining trucks and Huon apple trucks to Hobart's fire engines and wartime army vehicles, with hundreds of photographs.


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Islands of the Island State - Rees Campbell explores 40 of Tasmania's 6,500 offshore islands, their history & wild food | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Sep 8, 2026

Rees Campbell, author of the bestselling Eat MORE Wild Tasmanian, turns her attention to Tasmania's off-shore islands. There are some 6,500 islands, islets, rocks and reefs around the state, and this book visits 40 of them — from the largest, Flinders Island, to the remote and uninhabited Pedra Branca and Mewstone in the Southern Ocean, to some of the smallest and closest, like the Harbour Islets in the state's far North West.


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Mad Scientist | Rory Jack Thompson | Tasmanian True Crime

Written during his long-term psychiatric incarceration, this 398-page softcover autobiography provides a deeply unsettling but detailed look into the life, brilliant scientific career, and mental descent of Dr Rory Jack Thompson. In 1983, while serving as a principal research scientist for the CSIRO in Hobart, Thompson was arrested for the notorious murder of his wife, later being found not guilty on the grounds of insanity.


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Madigan's Account - used
The Antarctic diaries of C.T. Madigan from the Mawson Expedition 1911-1914.

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Manganinnie – A Story of Old Tasmania | Beth Roberts | 1999 [USED – HC]

Beth Roberts's story of Manganinnie — an Aboriginal Tasmanian woman separated from her people during the Black Drive of 1830, the coordinated colonial military operation that attempted to sweep the remaining Aboriginal population of Van Diemen's Land into the Tasman Peninsula. The story was adapted into a highly regarded Australian film in 1980, directed by John Honey and produced by the Tasmanian Film Corporation.


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Mapping Van Diemen's Land and the Great Beyond | Royal Society of Tasmania | [USED – HC – Very Good]

A collection of rare and significant maps from the Royal Society of Tasmania's collection — many of them little seen by the public — published to showcase the breadth and historical significance of the Society's cartographic holdings. The maps principally cover Van Diemen's Land from the earliest days of European contact and settlement, but the collection extends to areas "beyond".


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Margaret Scott Collected Poems

Collected poems of Tasmanian writer Margaret Scott. Softcover, 2000, 174 pages, used, out of print.


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Maria Island - A Tasmanian Eden by Maggie Weidenhofer, foreword by Patsy Adam-Smith |Used SC|

An illustrated history of Maria Island, off the East Coast of Tasmania.


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Maria Island Convicts 1825-1832 by Brian Rieusset - Tasmanian convict history

An account of the first convict settlement on Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, drawing on the original Register of Convicts held by the Oxfordshire County Records Office in Oxford, England — including tabulated information on all 347 convicts held at the settlement (1 female and 346 male), transcribed from the original register.


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Maria Island History and Landscapes 1825-1930

A history of Maria Island's recent past structured around four key touchstones.


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Mariners on the Margins
Plundering seals in colonial Australasia - a history.

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Marion - Marion Oak Sticht
Marion - an historical / biographical novel set on the West Coast based on the life of Marion Oak Sticht, the wife of Mt Lyell's first General Manager Robert Carl Sticht. This is a USED book.

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