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Sticks and Stones
Added: Dec 5, 2024
 
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Walking adventures following the trails of the Big River Nation and colonial surveyors in Western Tasmania - part memoir, part history.

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From Montagu Swamp to Togari
Added: Mar 31, 2025
 
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"A job well done" tells the early history, development and settlement of parts of the Montagu swampland in Circular Head, northwest Tasmania to the lush diary farms of today.

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The Archer Heritage
Added: Mar 30, 2025
 
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A comprehensive account of William Archer of Hertford and Van Diemen's Land, his ancestors and descendants.

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Convict Lives at the Ross Female Factory
 
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The stories of women convicts who served at the Ross Female Factory.

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Convicts of the Fingal Valley
 
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A history of the convicts at Tasmania's Fingal Valley probation stations - Fingal, St Mary's Pass, Falmouth barracks.

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Cypress Street Cemetery
 
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A history of the Cypress Street Cemetery including a listing of those buried there.

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David Howie - Devil or Saint? A biography
 
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A biography of David Howie, a man who became a household name in Australia in 1845 as a result of his involvement in the rescue of survivors of the shipwreck of the Cataraqui on King Island - Australia's worst sea tragedy on record.

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Deviot Talks
 
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A local history of Deviot, in northern Tasmania - located on the banks of the Tamar River between Sidmouth and Robigana.

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Duck Reach - Launceston's Electric Light - Marvels of the Cataract
 
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A history of many different aspects of Cataract Gorge, Launceston, including the Duck Reach hydroelectric power station.

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Early Deloraine
 
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The writings of Louisa Meredith and Daniel Griffin with a selection of photographs from circa 1850 to 1919 capturing the early days of Deloraine, in the north of Tasmania.

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Early History of the Penny Royal Watermill and Gatenby Family
 
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An 8- page booklet telling the early history of Launceston's Penny Royal Watermill and the Gatenby family whose farm it was originally built on in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania, 1812-1862.

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Echoes from the Wild West Coast of Tasmania - used
 
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A book based on the Tasmanian West Coast stories of Frederick George Copeland who wrote about his experiences around Queenstown, Penghana, Strahan, Zeehan, Corinna and Trial Harbour in the 1890s.

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Farewell Heemskirk Goodbye Dundas
 
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A history of Tasmania's Heemskirk and Dundas mining fields. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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