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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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Clarendon and its People - used See details
Clarendon and its People - used
A brief history of the old Clarendon property at the Nile, near Evandale in northern Tasmania, including history of the Cox, Boyes and Menzies families.
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Coconuts to Computers - illustrated history of Norfolk Island and its People See details
Coconuts to Computers - illustrated history of Norfolk Island and its People

Coconuts to Computers is Alice Inez Buffett's illustrated history of Norfolk Island and its people, tracing the island's development from its traditional subsistence economy to the modern era.

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Colonial Life in Tasmania – Fifty Years of Photography 1855–1905 | Allan Sierp | 1976 [USED – HCDJ] See details
Colonial Life in Tasmania – Fifty Years of Photography 1855–1905 | Allan Sierp | 1976 [USED – HCDJ]

A photographic record of colonial Tasmania covering the years 1855 to 1905. Compiled by Allan Sierp, the book draws together fifty years of early photography documenting the people, towns, industries and landscapes of Van Diemen's Land and early Tasmania.

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Contested Places See details
Contested Places
A regional history of Tasmania's Northern agricultural districts from ancient times to 1900 - encompassing the former municipalities of Deloraine, Westbury, Evandale and Longford.
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Convict Kingston - A Guide to the Convict-Era Buildings of Kingston, Norfolk Island - Nan Smith See details
Convict Kingston - A Guide to the Convict-Era Buildings of Kingston, Norfolk Island - Nan Smith

A guide to the convict-era buildings of Kingston, Norfolk Island - home to one of the harshest penal settlements in the British Empire between 1825 and 1855. By Nan Smith.

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Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory See details
Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory

The stories of women who were sent to the first 'female factory" in the north of Tasmania.

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Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory See details
Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory
The story of the female convicts who lived and worked at the Launceston Female Factory.
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Convict Lives at the New Norfolk Asylum See details
Convict Lives at the New Norfolk Asylum
The lives of twenty two women convict inmates at New Norfolk's Asylum are examined in this continuing series of Convict Lives.
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Convict Lives at the Ross Female Factory See details
Convict Lives at the Ross Female Factory
The stories of women convicts who served at the Ross Female Factory.
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Convicts of the Fingal Valley See details
Convicts of the Fingal Valley
A history of the convicts at Tasmania's Fingal Valley probation stations - Fingal, St Mary's Pass, Falmouth barracks.
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