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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.

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The Water Getters
Added: May 13, 2024
 
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The history of a Tasmanian city's drinking water supply - how Hobart quenched its thirst.

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A View to Cradle
Added: May 13, 2024
 
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A history of Tasmania's Forth River High Country from white settlement to national park.

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The East Coasters - hardcover
 
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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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Vanishing Towns - softcover
 
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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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Wonderstruck
 
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A history of the discovery and use of Tasmania's caves and karsts.

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Lake Pedder - the Awakening
 
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Peter Sims traces the life of the 1967 campaign to Save Lake Pedder in Tasmania's South West wilderness, providing a history of the efforts and impacts of campaigners at local, State, national and international levels.

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Before We Forget - recollections and history of the Riana Cricket Club from 1903 - 2012
 
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An accolade to the wonderful characters and magnificent cricketers who have played a part in shaping the Riana Cricket Club.

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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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A History of Oatlands
 
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A history of Oatlands in Tasmania's southern midlands, renowned for its old sandstone buildings.

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A Peopled Frontier - the European Heritage of the Tarkine Area
 
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A Peopled Frontier documents the considerable history of human activity (European only) in the Tarkine region of north-west Tasmania which contains a large tract of temperate rainforest and is often described - erroneously, according to the author - as a wilderness.

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Adamsfield - the town that lived and died
 
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A history of the Adamsfield township that grew around osmiridium mining in the Tasmanian wilderness, and was subsequently abandoned.

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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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