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Central Cookery Book (Metric Revised Edition) – A.C. Irvine

The Central Cookery Book was compiled in the 1930s by Alice C. Irvine, Mistress of Domestic Science with the Education Department of Tasmania, and used for generations as the core textbook for home economics classes in Tasmanian high schools. Generations of Tasmanians learned to cook from this book.

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FungiFlip – A Pictorial Guide to Tasmanian Fungi | Gates, Ratkowsky & Wiltshire | 2018 [NEW]

A fold-out laminated field guide to the fungi of Tasmania — colour illustrated, weatherproof and compact enough to take on any walk.

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The Australian Convict Recipe Book

This little cookbook includes 150 practical recipes from colonial Tasmanian times plus historical photographs, convict rules and rations and the unabridged story of Bessie Baldwin, convict cook to Governor Sir John Franklin.

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Ticklebelly Tales – Stories from the People of the Hydro 1910–2006 | Heather Felton | 2013 [NEW – HCDJ]

Building Tasmania's hydroelectric power system was one of the largest and most ambitious engineering undertakings in the state's history, carried out over nearly a century in some of the most remote and difficult terrain in the country. Ticklebelly Tales tells that story through the people who actually did the work — the construction workers, engineers and families who lived in the temporary townships built around the dam and power station sites, often in genuinely harsh conditions, from 1910 through to 2006.

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Mad Scientist | Rory Jack Thompson | Tasmanian True Crime

Written during his long-term psychiatric incarceration, this 398-page softcover autobiography provides a deeply unsettling but detailed look into the life, brilliant scientific career, and mental descent of Dr Rory Jack Thompson. In 1983, while serving as a principal research scientist for the CSIRO in Hobart, Thompson was arrested for the notorious murder of his wife, later being found not guilty on the grounds of insanity.

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The Convict Letter Writer

The extraordinary story of a woman's journey from convict maid in Campbell Town to prosperity, status and wealth on the other side of the world.

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PooFlip - life-size guide to the scats of Tasmanian native mammals

A fold-out laminated field guide to the scats of Tasmania's native mammals — printed life-size so you can hold it next to what you've found on the track and make a direct comparison. Covers species including wombat, Tasmanian devil, quoll, wallaby, possum, bandicoot and echidna.

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The Blythe Star Tragedy

On 12 October 1973 the Blythe Star left Hobart for King Island with a cargo of fertiliser and beer. Fourteen hours later it sank without warning. Its crew of ten made it into a life raft, destined to drift for eight days around southern Tasmania.

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A History of Campbell Town - The Children of Erin

Stories of the early settlers of Campbell Town that are designed to shed light on this Northern Midlands town from its earliest years through to modern times.

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Vanishing Towns – Tasmania's Ghost Towns and Lost Settlements – Hardcover Edition | Michael Holmes | 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

Michael Holmes's guide to the ghost towns and lost settlements of Tasmania — the places that once lived, occasionally thrived, and then disappeared, leaving varying degrees of evidence that they ever existed.

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