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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An illustrated chronological history of the Hobart area of Wapping, produced to mark the redevelopment of Hobart's Theatre Royal and the new Hedberg performing arts and music education centre.
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.
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.
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.
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.
![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]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/a-donation-to-the-colony-DE8znQ.png "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]")
![First Person | Richard Flanagan | 2017 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/first-person-wS7qbv.png "First Person | Richard Flanagan | 2017 [USED – HCDJ]")
![Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/xctmpuQkvie.png "Honour Denied – Teddy Sheean, a Tasmanian Hero | Dr Tom Lewis | 2016 [USED – SC]")
![Merle Oberon – Face of Mystery | Bob Casey | 2008 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/merle-oberon-IYS5jL.png "Merle Oberon – Face of Mystery | Bob Casey | 2008 [SC]")
