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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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40 South Short Story Anthology 2026
Added: Jul 23, 2026

Finalist stories from Forty South's Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2026, an annual short story competition open to writers in Australia and New Zealand on an island, or island-resonant, theme.


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A Pictorial History of the Railway & Tramways of Western Tasmania - the Abt Railway, Emu Bay Railway & North East Dundas Tramway | Ronald K Aubrey | 1975 [USED – SC]

A pictorial history of the private mining railways and tramways that once served Tasmania's West Coast, including the Mount Lyell Company's Abt Railway between Queenstown and Strahan, alongside the Emu Bay Railway (Burnie to Zeehan) and the North East Dundas Tramway, which ran the world's first two Garratt articulated locomotives.


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A Pictorial Look at Hobart at War 1939 to 1945
This book is a photographic tribute to the people of Hobart and Tasmania who came forward and volunteered to do their part in helping the fight in World War Two.

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A Place in the Stockyard - used
A celebration of the agricultural successes and tribulations of Tasmanian women living and working in agriculture and on farming properties.

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A Pocketful of Nature - anthology of notes and articles by the natural history columnist Peregrine HCDJ signed, numbered

An anthology of notes and articles by the natural history columnist of The Mercury, Hobart, 'Peregrine' (Michael Sharland).


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A Post-Colonial Boy (Facing the Music) - poetry
These poems convey Graeme Hetherington's response to his awareness of Tasmania's convict past as it continued to make itself deeply felt during the 40s and 50s of the last century, nowhere more so than on the island's West Coast.

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A Priceless Gift - Launceston Mechanics' Institute
A history of The Launceston Mechanics' Institute and Public Library 1906 to 1948.

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A Road in Van Diemen's Land – The Convict-Built Bell's Line of Road from the Derwent River to St Peter's Pass 1820–1824 | John Thompson | 2004 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

John Thompson's detailed history of Bell's Line of Road — the convict-built road surveyed and constructed through the Tasmanian Midlands between 1820 and 1824, connecting the Derwent River at New Norfolk northward through the Central Midlands to St Peter's Pass near the present-day township of Oatlands.


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A Salute to Max Angus – Tasmanian Watercolour Painter | Alison Alexander | 2021 [HCDJ]

Alison Alexander's biography of Max Angus — one of Tasmania's most significant artists of the 20th century, whose watercolours documented the Tasmanian landscape across a century of life from 1905 to 2012.


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A Short History of Richard Kline - used
All his life, Richard Kline has been haunted by a sense that something is lacking. He envies the ease with which others slip into contented suburban life or the pursuit of wealth.

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A Short History of Ross – With Some Tales of the Pioneers | K.R. von Stieglitz | Reprint [USED – SC – Good]

K.R. von Stieglitz's short history of Ross — the historic Midlands town on the Macquarie River about 10 minutes south of Campbell Town, known for its Georgian streetscape, the convict-carved Ross Bridge (1836) and its position as one of the best-preserved colonial towns in Australia. Ross is also becoming known as a dark sky destination — the surrounding Midlands countryside offers some of the best stargazing conditions in Tasmania.


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