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Mountain Stories: Echoes from the Tasmanian High Country (Volume 2) by Simon Cubit, available new, offers a collection of oral histories from the Western Tiers and Central Plateau. As a standalone volume that does not require reading the out-of-print first book, this 290-page softcover captures the lives of the mountain men and heritage huts.

This the fourth volume of Les Morley's history of Tasmania's road transport traces the enormous changes that occurred post war between 1950 and 1965.

Between 1841 and 1853, nearly 250 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land for committing arson, a number out of all proportion to males transported for the same offence. Renowned Tasmanian historian Dianne Snowden explains why so many women resorted to arson as a desperate survival mechanism during the Great Famine, explores their motives, and follows their lived experiences both as convicts in the factory system and subsequently when set free in the colony.

The story of Winsome "Win" King and Clyde Clayton, who lived their lives together in one of the most remote parts of Tasmania — the far South West. Written by Janet Fenton, the daughter of Win's brother Denny King, who tells the story from direct, first-hand family knowledge of the country and the people.