Just Tassie Books

The first volume in Norm Beechey and Dorothy Baker's history of Dover and Port Esperance — the small community on the shore of Port Esperance Bay in southern Tasmania, some 90km south of Hobart. This volume covers the earliest years of European settlement in the area from 1845 to 1875 — the establishment of the settlement, the convict station at Dover, the first families who took up land in the district, the Hope Island timber industry, the early timber-getters and farmers, and the community institutions including the Good Templars and the early churches and schools.

The Circular Head District Agricultural, Pastoral, Horticultural and Poultry Association held its first show in November 1907, on what was then the old cricket ground.

J.S. Weeding's history of the lower Midlands district of Tasmania — the region south of Campbell Town encompassing Oatlands, Tunbridge, Antill Ponds, Jericho, Interlaken, Parattah, Mount Seymour, Lake Tiberias, Rhyndaston, Stonor, Tunnack, Woodsdale, Andover, Levendale, Stonehenge and Swanston. The lower Midlands is convict-era country — the road south from Campbell Town passes through landscapes shaped by assigned convict labour, pastoral runs, coaching inns and probation stations.

A collection of more than 100 of Sally Wise's recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and afternoon tea, drawing on the produce and landscapes of the Derwent Valley and Tasmania's south. Illustrated throughout with colour photography.