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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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Snakes of Tasmania | Simon Fearn | QVMAG Natural History Series | 2015 [NEW – SC]

A concise guide to Tasmania's three snake species — the Tiger Snake, Lowland Copperhead and White-lipped Snake — all venomous to varying degrees. Written by Simon Fearn and published by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) as part of their Natural History Series.


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Snarers and Cattlemen of the Mersey High Country – The Lees of Lees' Paddocks | Simon Cubit | [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Simon Cubit's history of the Lee family and their work as snarers and cattlemen in the Mersey High Country — the remote high country of Tasmania's Central Plateau above the Mersey Valley, centred on Lees' Paddocks near the headwaters of the Mersey River. The Lee family spent generations working this remote country — running cattle on the high plateau in summer, snaring possums through the colder months, and living a way of life that has since largely disappeared.


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Snow at North Down
The author's memoir of a life at North Down in Northern Tasmania, from 1931.

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Soil
What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. If we want our food to nourish us, and to ensure our planet's long-term health, we need to understand how soil works - how it's made, how it's lost, and how it can be repaired.

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Solomon's Noose - used
The true story of Solomon Blay the convict turned hangman who served as Her Majesty's hangman of Hobart for half a century.

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Some Common Spiders of Tasmania - Vernon V Hickman OBE, Australia's leading arachnologist | 1967 [USED – SC]

VVHickman OBE was Professor of Biology at the University of Tasmania 1943-1959, and became recognised as Australia's leading arachnologist. He personally described numerous Tasmanian spider species, including the Tasmanian funnel-web spider, and was honoured with an entire genus and family named after him — Hickmania and Hickmaniidae, the Tasmanian cave spider. This guide introduces Tasmania's common spiders through his own photographs and detailed drawings.


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Some Notes on Maria Island and its Penal Settlements

Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, operated as a convict penal settlement from 1825 to 1832 — established to ease overcrowding at Hobart — before closing due to frequent escapes and reopening as a probation station from 1842 to 1850. Darlington, at the island's north, is today regarded as the most intact surviving example of a convict probation station in Australia, and is UNESCO World Heritage-listed as part of the Australian Convict Sites.


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Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - hardcover
A beautiful facsimile edition of Louisa Anne Meredith's Bush Friends of Tasmania original published in 1860 with the 2nd volume following some 31 years later.

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Some Small Towns and Villages around Launceston - USED
A history of fourteen small towns around Launceston beautifully illustrated by artist and author, Elizabeth de Quincey.

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Something about Lingtown – A Sequel: More About Sulphur Creek | Nanette Sharman | 2011 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Nanette Sharman's sequel history of Sulphur Creek — the small coastal community on Tasmania's north-west coast between Burnie and Penguin, known historically as Lingtown.


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