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The East Coasters - hardcover
Added: Mar 9, 2024
 
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A hardcover reprint of the classic history of the early European settlers along the East Coast of Tasmania, by Lois Nyman.

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The East Coasters - softcover
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A softcover reprint of the classic history of the early European settlers along the East Coast of Tasmania, by Lois Nyman.

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Maria Island History and Landscapes 1825-1930
Added: Feb 1, 2024
 
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A history of Maria Island's recent past structured around four key touchstones: the two phases of convict occupation during the Penal Period 1825-32 and the Probation Period 1842-52; the optimistic tenure of the Bernacchi Period 1884-96; and the resource exploitation of the Industrial Period 1920-30.

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200 Years of Showing
 
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A history of the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania, the oldest agricultural society in Australia, and host of the Royal Hobart Show.

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Grasping at Shadows - Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine
 
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In 1975 a young Adelaide teacher, who wanted to write for the theatre, fell in love with a geologist and followed him to the abandoned Tasmanian mining town of Balfour, in the Tarkine area. With another couple and their two small children, they lived the 1970s back-to-the-bush dream while operating a small-scale tin mining plant.

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The Newsprint - a social & forestry history of Maydena, Tyenna Valley
 
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A social and forestry history of Maydena, an experimental logging town in the Tyenna Valley, Tasmania 1920-2020.

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Stock Thieves and Golfers
 
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A history of Kangaroo Bay and Rosny Farm Tasmania 1803-1998. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Two Men in a Punt in the Wake of the Huon Piners - DVD
 
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Two Men in a Punt follows in the wake of the old huon piners of Western Tasmania.

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Memories of Badger Head
 
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History and memoirs from the Badger Head area, a headland a little west of the river Tamar in the Asbestos Range, northern Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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The Huon Pine Story - History of Harvest & Use of a Unique Timber
 
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The Huon Pine Story is written in a narrative style full of interviews with old timers and gives an insight into the men and their families who cut and harvested the giant huon pines of the Tasmanian forest.

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Billycarts & Wheelchairs - 75 Years of St Giles
 
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A history of St Giles in Tasmania, an organisation that helps meet the special needs of the disabled across the State.

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The Founding of Hobart - signed
 
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A diary recounting the events on the Derwent 1803-1804. This is a USED book.

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Reading in Colonial Tasmania - the early years of the Evandale Subscription Library
 
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The Evandale Subscription Library in the north of Tasmania is unique in that its 19th century manuscript catalogue of books and loans register has survived.


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