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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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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]

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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Knocklofty – Hobart's Back Yard | Suzanne Smythe | 2018 See details
Knocklofty – Hobart's Back Yard | Suzanne Smythe | 2018

Residents of Hobart love walking through the tall trees of Knocklofty Reserve, visiting the Frog Ponds, spotting mopokes and wallabies, and admiring the wattle trees in bloom. But there’s a lot more to Knocklofty than its natural beauty.

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Lake Leake 1883-1983 See details
Lake Leake 1883-1983
A 40-page booklet telling the story of Lake Leake's first hundred years of providing a permanent water supply to Campbell Town and the surrounding area of the Midlands, Tasmania.
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Lake Pedder - the Awakening See details
Lake Pedder - the Awakening
Peter Sims traces the life of the 1967 campaign to Save Lake Pedder in Tasmania's South West wilderness, providing a history of the efforts and impacts of campaigners at local, State, national and international levels.
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Last Days of the Mill - used See details
Last Days of the Mill - used
Last Days of the Mill captures the closure in 2011 of Burnie's iconic 'Pulp' through the eyes of a poet and an artist.
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Latitude Forty - reminiscences of Flinders Island See details
Latitude Forty - reminiscences of Flinders Island

Jim Davie's reminiscences of life on Flinders Island — the largest of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait, sitting on the 40th parallel south, within the "Roaring Forties" latitude band that gives this book its title.

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Launceston Municipal Transport 1911-1955 See details
Launceston Municipal Transport 1911-1955
A history of transport in the city of Launceston in the north of Tasmania - horsedrawn omnibuses and cabs, trams, trolleybuses, holiday cars and buses.
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Launceston Revealed - History through maps See details
Launceston Revealed - History through maps

A history of the settlement and growth of Launceston in the north of Tasmania through maps.

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Launceston Sketchbook - Patsy Adam Smith & Arthur Phillips |HCDJ| See details
Launceston Sketchbook - Patsy Adam Smith & Arthur Phillips |HCDJ|

Black and white drawings of key Launceston landmarks by Arthur Phillips, with explanatory text by Patsy Adam Smith, published in the Rigby Australian historical series.

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Launceston – History of an Australian City | John Reynolds | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Good] See details
Launceston – History of an Australian City | John Reynolds | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

John Reynolds's history of Launceston — the city at the head of the Tamar River in northern Tasmania, founded in 1806 and Tasmania's second city.

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