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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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Hydro Construction Villages Volume Two – Butlers Gorge, Bronte Park, Trevallyn and Wayatinah | Sarah Rackham | 1982 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume Two – Butlers Gorge, Bronte Park, Trevallyn and Wayatinah | Sarah Rackham | 1982 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The second volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission during Tasmania's great dam-building era. Volume Two covers four distinct HEC villages — Butlers Gorge, near Lake King William in the upper Derwent catchment; Bronte Park, on the Central Plateau near Bronte Lagoon; Trevallyn, the hydro suburb built on the hills above Launceston to house workers for the Trevallyn Power Station; and Wayatinah, a construction village in the southern Central Plateau.

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I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield and osmiridium mining |Vintage history SC| See details
I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield and osmiridium mining |Vintage history SC|

I Had A Quid to Get - a book recalling the days around osmiridium mining at Adamsfield 1925 and other Tasmanian stories.

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Identities and History of Tasmania's High Country | Ned Terry | 2005 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Identities and History of Tasmania's High Country | Ned Terry | 2005 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Ned Terry's collection of recollections from people who lived and worked in Tasmania's Central Highlands — the cattlemen, snarers, drovers, hydro workers and families who made their living in the high country around Great Lake, the Mersey Valley, the Forth Valley and the surrounding plateau.

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In Pioneers' Footsteps - Exploring Deloraine & Meander Valley 2nd ed SC NEW See details
In Pioneers' Footsteps - Exploring Deloraine & Meander Valley 2nd ed SC NEW

A walking guide to the history and built heritage of Deloraine and Meander Valley area.

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In the path of the roaring forties - King Island See details
In the path of the roaring forties - King Island
Memories of King Island. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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In the Shadow of Murchison - aspects of Rosebery's 100 years 1893-1993, Pasminco Mining See details
In the Shadow of Murchison - aspects of Rosebery's 100 years 1893-1993, Pasminco Mining

Rosebery was founded after prospector Tom McDonald discovered gold and zinc-lead ore on the slopes of Mount Black in 1893, in the shadow of Mount Murchison on Tasmania's west coast. Published to mark the settlement's centenary, this book by Geof Jay looks at aspects of Rosebery's first hundred years, 1893–1993.

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Isis Valley Soldier Settlers, Campbell Town, Tasmania See details
Isis Valley Soldier Settlers, Campbell Town, Tasmania
In 1921 part of the Bicton estate was purchased by the Closer Settlement Board and the land divided into four farms to be rented to returned soldiers - Harry Bayly, Malcolm McGhie, Alan Atkinson and Harry Jones were the successful applicants for the farm blocks.
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Island Stint See details
Island Stint
Life in the Furneaux Islands of Bass Strait in the 1950s.
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Islands of Bass Strait - 42 islands of the Furneaux Group See details
Islands of Bass Strait - 42 islands of the Furneaux Group

Patsy Adam-Smith and John Powell survey the 42 islands of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait — the largest of which, Flinders Island, was where Tasmania's last free Aboriginal people were relocated in the 1830s.

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Islands of Tasmania See details
Islands of Tasmania
As photographed by Richard Bennett.
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