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The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC] See details
The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]
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Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation in the last 200 years. Justine Hausheer's 2026 book documents what is being lost and what is being done to prevent further extinctions.

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Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ] See details
Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]
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Peter Hughes's comprehensive study of furniture made in Van Diemen's Land during the early colonial period — the most thorough treatment of this subject since Craig, Fahy and Robertson's Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (1972).

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Oatlands Past to Present | Oatlands District Historical Society | [NEW – SC] See details
Oatlands Past to Present | Oatlands District Historical Society | [NEW – SC]
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A new local history of Oatlands and the surrounding area — compiled by the Oatlands District Historical Society. Oatlands sits in Tasmania's Southern Midlands on the Midland Highway corridor, about 85km north of Hobart and 40 minutes south of Campbell Town. Its main street of intact colonial sandstone buildings is one of the most complete examples of colonial-era architecture in Australia.

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A Donation to the Colony – Epic Voyage on the Hannah: German & British Free Settlers and Their Contribution to Van Diemen's Land | Eva Meidl | 2004 [SC]
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A Donation to the Colony – Epic Voyage on the Hannah: German & British Free Settlers and Their Contribution to Van Diemen's Land | Eva Meidl | 2004 [SC]

Eva Meidl's account of the voyage of the Hannah — the ship that sailed from Liverpool in November 1850 carrying German and British free settlers to Van Diemen's Land, arriving in Launceston in March 1851. Among the passengers on the Hannah was Ludwig Becker — German artist, naturalist and explorer.

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An Imperial Disaster
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An Imperial Disaster
An historical study of the shipwreck of the convict transport ship George the Third on entering the D'Entrecasteaux Channel after a 4 month voyage from England, with great loss of life.
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Fight the Fiery Fiend - Colonial Fire Fighting 1803-1883
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Fight the Fiery Fiend - Colonial Fire Fighting 1803-1883
A history of how the early European settlers in Van Diemen's Land fought fires, including those on ships in the River Derwent. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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First Person | Richard Flanagan | 2017 [USED – HCDJ]
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First Person | Richard Flanagan | 2017 [USED – HCDJ]

Richard Flanagan's 2017 novel — his first after The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. A young writer is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a charismatic and morally bankrupt con man in a matter of weeks. As the narrator is pulled deeper into his subject's world, the boundaries between the two men and between truth and fiction begin to dissolve.

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Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]
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Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]

The story of Ordinary Seaman Edward "Teddy" Sheean — a Tasmanian from Latrobe who, on 1 December 1942, strapped himself to an anti-aircraft gun on the sinking HMAS Armidale and continued firing at Japanese aircraft to protect his shipmates in the water, even as the ship went down beneath him. He was 18 years old. He did not survive.

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Merle Oberon – Face of Mystery | Bob Casey | 2008 [SC]
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Merle Oberon – Face of Mystery | Bob Casey | 2008 [SC]

For most of her career, Merle Oberon — one of Hollywood's leading actresses of the 1930s and 1940s, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Dark Angel (1935) and starring opposite Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939) — claimed to have been born in Hobart, Tasmania, to white British parents, and that her birth records had been destroyed in a fire.

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Motherland
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Motherland
The author says... Motherhood has not been an easy journey for me. After moving to the farm in 2019 with a 6-month-old in tow, I soon felt the pang of isolation. I started the Motherland Australia podcast to fill a gaping hole I felt out here... connection.
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Port Dalrymple Shipping from 1963 to 1972
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Port Dalrymple Shipping from 1963 to 1972
A book of colour photographs recording the ships that sailed into Port Dalrymple in northern Tasmania in the last decade prior to the advent of mass containerisation and the decline of the vast numbers of seafarers required to man the new type of ships. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - softcover
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Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - softcover
A facsimile edition of Louisa Anne Meredith's two volume set, originally published in 1860 and 1891.
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Sweet Envy - 100 recipes from the grandest little bakehouse in town
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Sweet Envy - 100 recipes from the grandest little bakehouse in town

This is the cookbook from Alistair Wise and Teena Kearney-Wise of Sweet Envy, an old-fashioned sweets parlour, cake shop and bakehouse all in one in North Hobart, Tasmania.

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