Building Stories Tasmania is an illustrated tour of Tasmania's most distinctive buildings - working waterfronts, former hydro sites, pubs, bookshops, hotels, theatres and small-town main streets - told through the people who built, worked and lived in them: convicts, clergy, brewers, booksellers and activists.
My Kemp Ancestors traces six generations of David Gatenby's Kemp family line, opening on the Isle of Sheppey before following the family chapter by chapter from William Kemp and Amelia Fowler onwards.
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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Browse thousands of Tasmanian books at The Book Cellar - convict history, local and family history, Aboriginal Tasmania, maritime, art, nature and fiction, new and out of print. Books ship from Campbell Town, Tasmania.
The waters around Australia have proved treacherous to mariners and since the wreck of the English ship Trial in 1622, thousands of vessels have been lost up to the present day.
The story of King Island's many shipwrecks, including the Cataraqui disaster of 1845 – Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, claiming around 400 lives – along with the Neva, British Admiral and Blencartha, and the lighthouses eventually built to make the treacherous western entrance to Bass Strait safer.
Starting with the first shipwreck in the waters around the Furneaux Islands — the Sydney Cove in 1797 — this book tells the stories of ships wrecked around the Furneaux Group, the islands at the eastern end of Bass Strait including Flinders Island, Cape Barren Island and Clarke Island.
Johnson Dean's memoir of early canoeing on Tasmania's wild rivers — the Franklin, Gordon, Pieman and King — in the years before the Franklin Dam campaign brought international attention to these waters.
Tasmanian author Anthony Hope has written short stories from World War Two based on the experiences of Gregor Salmon, Critchley Parker, Jerzy Otlowski, Robert Nobes, Ronald Hope, Paul Hope, Margaret Spencer and Elsie White.
John and Monica Chapman's guide to 31 short walks in the northern half of Tasmania — ranging from half an hour to 2.5 hours, most of them easy and suitable for families. Walks range geographically from Scamander on the East Coast north to Mt William, across to Launceston and the Bass Strait coast and hinterland, and west through Mole Creek, Cradle Mountain, Smithton and the Tarkine.
A book about the artworks of landscape painter Simpkinson de Wesselow in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District, 1844-1848. Signed and numbered hardcover/dustjacket edition.
Sarah Kanake's Sing Fox to Me is a story built from lost and stolen children, Tasmanian tigers, missing animals, Down syndrome and parents who run away.
![Shipwrecks of the Furneaux Group – Around the Islands at the Eastern End of Bass Strait | Graeme Broxam & Michael Nash | 2023 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/shipwrecks-of-the-furneaux-group-4wJqTt.png "Shipwrecks of the Furneaux Group – Around the Islands at the Eastern End of Bass Strait | Graeme Broxam & Michael Nash | 2023 [NEW – SC]")
![Shooting the Franklin – Early Canoeing on Tasmania's Wild Rivers | Johnson Dean | 2002 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/shooting-the-franklin-VDBluf.png "Shooting the Franklin – Early Canoeing on Tasmania's Wild Rivers | Johnson Dean | 2002 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
![Short Walks Northern Tasmania | John & Monica Chapman | 2019 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/short-walks-northern-tasmania-mfTbM4.png "Short Walks Northern Tasmania | John & Monica Chapman | 2019 [NEW – SC]")
