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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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Lefroy See details
Lefroy
A history of Tasmania's forgotten gold town of Lefroy.
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Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb See details
Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb
The history of the convict William Webb, transported for theft, and the very successful legacy his family left to the young colony in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania and beyond.
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Legerwood Days - North East Tasmania farming community history |Glenn Carins | 2023 SC | See details
Legerwood Days - North East Tasmania farming community history |Glenn Carins | 2023 SC |

A history of the North East Tasmanian town of Legerwood.

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Lilydale Conflict or Unity 1914-1918 See details
Lilydale Conflict or Unity 1914-1918
An examination of a Tasmanian rural district during the Great War / WWI.
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Linda - Ghost Town of Mount Lyell, memories of the North Mount Lyell mining settlement | Edward John "Rocky" Wedd | 1987 [USED – SC] Town of Mt Lyell - memories by Edward John "Rocky" Wedd See details
Linda - Ghost Town of Mount Lyell, memories of the North Mount Lyell mining settlement | Edward John "Rocky" Wedd | 1987 [USED – SC] Town of Mt Lyell - memories by Edward John "Rocky" Wedd

Linda, in the Linda Valley on Tasmania's West Coast Range, was founded in 1899 to support the North Mount Lyell mine, becoming the terminus of the North Mount Lyell Railway. When the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company took over the mine in 1903, most residents shifted uphill to nearby Gormanston, and Linda's importance faded.

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Living on the Land See details
Living on the Land
Glimpses of a community working with wool in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania - a Campbell Town District High School illustrated local history.
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Living Stones - volume I See details
Living Stones - volume I
A guide to some Tasmanian graveyards - volume I of a series of three Living Stones books.
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Living Stones - volume III guide to Tasmanian graveyards See details
Living Stones - volume III guide to Tasmanian graveyards

A guide to some Tasmanian graveyards - volume III of a series of three Living Stones books.

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Living with Jezebel - used See details
Living with Jezebel - used
A Life on Tasmanian and Bass Strait Lightstations - the story of life lived on Tasmania's remote lighthouses in the days just before automation.
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Longford - Little Town with a Big Motor See details
Longford - Little Town with a Big Motor
The legend of motor racing in the little Tasmanian town of Longford, in the north of the State.
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