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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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Convicts, Cannibals and Strange Little Animals
Added: Jun 4, 2025
 
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A quirky, illustrated guide to the things that make Tasmania different and interesting.

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Out of the Ordinary
Added: May 23, 2025
 
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An historical novel based around the early life near Wynyard / Table Cape of FM Alexander, founder of the Alexander Technique.

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There Be Dragons - stories of a Tasmanian Childhood
 
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Heather Donaldson's short stories about her childhood in Tasmania are full of scares and dares.

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They Found A Cave
 
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In Nan Chauncy's classic Tasmanian children's novel, four English orphans - Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy - migrate to Tasmania, to the care of their Aunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart.

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They Loved Him to Death
 
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A biography of Australian Prime Minister from Tasmania, "Honest" Joe Lyons. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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They Served With Distinction
 
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A compendium of Tasmanian military history.

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This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
 
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A revised history of the relationship between Indigenous Australians and early settlers, with a focus on those men and women who fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites.

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Thomas Hainsworth - a Remarkable Pioneer
 
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This is the biography of Thomas Hainsworth, a coal miner who arrived in Tasmania from Yorkshire in 1854 and went on to become a mining / geology expert, educator, hospital founder and general pillar of society.


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Those Eco-Pirate Kids
 
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Fin has always been passionate about fishing, so when he discovers an illegal net full of undersized fish in Sydney’s northern waterways, his first reaction is to empty it.

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Those Shipwreck Kids
 
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When a Tasmanian sailing family anchors near an old wrecked hulk in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds, the kids discover a strangely abandoned campsite nearby, with plates of uneaten food and children’s toys still visible under the cockroaches and mould.

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Those Snake Island Kids - used
 
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When three Tasmanian kids are joined by Kiwi twins to camp on a small local island, they don’t anticipate the events which are to leave them isolated.

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Those That Survive - Tasmania's Vintage and Veteran Government and Commercial Vessels
 
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This book profiles over 300 vintage or veteran commercial and government shipping vessels built prior to 1970 that are of significance to Tasmania.

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