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Islands of the Island State - Rees Campbell explores 40 of Tasmania's 6,500 offshore islands, their history & wild food | 2026 [NEW – SC] See details
Islands of the Island State - Rees Campbell explores 40 of Tasmania's 6,500 offshore islands, their history & wild food | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Sep 8, 2026

Rees Campbell, author of the bestselling Eat MORE Wild Tasmanian, turns her attention to Tasmania's off-shore islands. There are some 6,500 islands, islets, rocks and reefs around the state, and this book visits 40 of them — from the largest, Flinders Island, to the remote and uninhabited Pedra Branca and Mewstone in the Southern Ocean, to some of the smallest and closest, like the Harbour Islets in the state's far North West.

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The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC] See details
The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]
Added: Mar 26, 2026

A close study of the 186 carved decorations on the Ross Bridge — the convict-built sandstone bridge that has spanned the Macquarie River at Ross since 1836, and one of the most visited historic sites in Tasmania. The carvings were the work of Daniel Herbert, a transported convict who was a stonemason by trade.

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Local History

A large and constantly updated collection of Tasmanian local and district history books – town histories, community stories, and the histories of local councils, districts and regions right across the state. Many of these titles were produced by local historical societies, councils, and community groups in small print runs, making them genuinely hard to find once out of print. A favourite section for genealogists, local historians, and anyone researching a specific Tasmanian town or district.

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Dying to be Healthy See details
Dying to be Healthy
A social history of how medical advances have impacted on the pioneering families of the Kentish community in northern Tasmania gradually improving their quality of life - home remedies, bush nurses, local midwives, diseases, epidemics, small private hospitals and all the doctors, dentists and pharmacists who have practised in Kentish.
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Early Deloraine See details
Early Deloraine
The writings of Louisa Meredith and Daniel Griffin with a selection of photographs from circa 1850 to 1919 capturing the early days of Deloraine, in the north of Tasmania.
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Early History of the Penny Royal Watermill and Gatenby Family See details
Early History of the Penny Royal Watermill and Gatenby Family
An 8- page booklet telling the early history of Launceston's Penny Royal Watermill and the Gatenby family whose farm it was originally built on in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania, 1812-1862.
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Echoes from the Wild West Coast of Tasmania - used See details
Echoes from the Wild West Coast of Tasmania - used
A book based on the Tasmanian West Coast stories of Frederick George Copeland who wrote about his experiences around Queenstown, Penghana, Strahan, Zeehan, Corinna and Trial Harbour in the 1890s.
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Entally House 1821: Pageant of a Pioneer Family 1792-1912 (K.R. von Stieglitz) - Tasmanian History / Genealogy See details
Entally House 1821: Pageant of a Pioneer Family 1792-1912 (K.R. von Stieglitz) - Tasmanian History / Genealogy

Built in 1821 at Hadspen in northern Tasmania, Entally House was home to four generations of the Reibey family, descendants of the celebrated emancipist businesswoman Mary Reibey. In this booklet, Tasmanian historian K.R. von Stieglitz traces the house and its pioneering occupants from 1792 to 1912, making it a useful reference for anyone researching the Reibey family or the history of colonial homesteads in the northern reaches of the Tasmanian Midlands, now Meander Valley municipality.

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Ephemeral Lisle See details
Ephemeral Lisle
A history of Lisle, the town that disappeared, in North East Tasmania.
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Faces of Launceston – The Photography of Philip Kuruvita 1995–2015 | Philip Kuruvita | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good] See details
Faces of Launceston – The Photography of Philip Kuruvita 1995–2015 | Philip Kuruvita | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good]

Philip Kuruvita's twenty-year photographic portrait project — 128 pages of black and white photographs capturing the people of Launceston between 1995 and 2015. In situ portraiture of a community over two decades gives this book a different character from a commemorative or historical photo album.

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Fair Dinkum Dutch Courage See details
Fair Dinkum Dutch Courage
Stories of the Dutch settlers in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
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Farewell Heemskirk Goodbye Dundas See details
Farewell Heemskirk Goodbye Dundas
A history of Tasmania's Heemskirk and Dundas mining fields. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Fires, Farms and Forests - Surrey Hills, North-west Tasmania See details
Fires, Farms and Forests - Surrey Hills, North-west Tasmania

Fires, Farms and Forests is an environmental and cultural account of the changes in the landscape of Surrey Hills, a unique tract of land in north-west Tasmania, ranging from the last ice age to the present day.

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