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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]
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]
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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A History of Port Sorell Tasmania 1844-1994 by Faye Gardam
Added: Sep 20, 2026

Faye Gardam's history of Port Sorell covers the district from Aboriginal occupation through to 1994 — the naming and surveying of the area, its streets and features, buildings and organisations, and local flora and fauna, along with a chapter of local stories ("A Few Good Stories!").


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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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Touring Tasmania in the 1880s
The newspaper articles of special correspondent Theophilus Jones who travelled extensively through Tasmania during the 1880s.

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Towns of Tasmania - A Journey Through Time
A beautifully presented photographic book that celebrates the unique style and spirit of Tasmania’s smaller towns including Deloraine, Evandale, Ross, Richmond, Strahan, Stanley, Bothwell, Queenstown, Triabunna, Derby, Franklin and Beaconsfield.

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Tullah and its Tramways
A history of the tramways around Tullah in the north-west of Tasmania, and their role in the mining industry.

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Tullah Remembered - the Farrell Mining Field 1897-1997

Tullah Remembered - a history of the Farrell Mining Field 1897-1997.


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Underground Hobart - The world beneath the city
An exploration of subterranean Hobart. The rich and colourful history of the once open but now buried waterways – including the Hobart Rivulet, Domain Park Rivulet, and Sandy Bay – Wellington Rivulet.

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Up Country - History of Portland Municipality, North East Tasmania

A history of the towns that made up Tasmania's Portland Municipality before it was merged into Dorset.


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Valley People - the stories of some 36 characters of the Fingal Valley

The stories of some 36 characters of the Fingal Valley with black/white photographic portraits by local GP Dr Jim Marwood.


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Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania... 1642-1856

Walter B. Pridmore's brief history of the island known as Van Diemen's Land before it became Tasmania. Softcover, 2008, 67 pages, illustrated with colour paintings.


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Vanishing Towns - softcover
One of Tasmania's most popular books of the past ten years is back in print with this softcover edition. Vanishing Towns provides a comprehensive examination of Tasmania's towns and settlements that are no longer (or never were) inhabited.

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Vanishing Towns – Tasmania's Ghost Towns and Lost Settlements – Hardcover Edition | Michael Holmes | 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

Michael Holmes's guide to the ghost towns and lost settlements of Tasmania — the places that once lived, occasionally thrived, and then disappeared, leaving varying degrees of evidence that they ever existed.


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