Biography
Biographies and memoirs of the people who shaped Tasmania – settlers, pioneers, convicts, politicians, farmers, mariners and ordinary Tasmanians whose life stories were written down. Many of these are self-published or small-run family histories that are genuinely hard to find elsewhere, alongside more widely published biographies of well-known Tasmanian figures.
Merle Oberon – Face of Mystery | Bob Casey | 2008 [SC]
For most of her career, Merle Oberon — one of Hollywood's leading actresses of the 1930s and 1940s, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Dark Angel (1935) and starring opposite Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939) — claimed to have been born in Hobart, Tasmania, to white British parents, and that her birth records had been destroyed in a fire.
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1015 Copenhagen K (Danish Royal Family Biography) - Used
Written by European royal correspondent Trine Villemann, this publication provides a contemporary journalistic account of the modern Danish Royal House. The text chronicles the court's history leading up to the marriage of Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson to Crown Prince Frederik, offering an independent perspective on the transition from a traditional constitutional monarchy into a modern royal family.
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1823 Before and After
William Effingham Lawrence family history.
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566 The Story of Charlie Eady - signed
Tasmanian cricketer Charlie Eady is best known for his colossal score of 566 for Break O'Day against Wellington in 1901-02, but his life extended far beyond that single performance.
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A Bone of Fact – Autobiography | David Walsh | 2014 [USED – HC – Good]
David Walsh's autobiography — the story of how a boy from Claremont in Hobart developed a system for gambling, became a multi-millionaire, and used that money to build MONA — the Museum of Old and New Art — on the former Morilla vineyard property at Berriedale on the Derwent River.
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A Bushman's Daughter
A memoir of growing up at Moltema.
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A Convict Pioneer and His Descendants - Cooper Smith
In 1844 at the age of 17, Cooper Smith of East Sussex, England was sentenced to twelve years beyond the seas for stealing two shirts, and so transported as a convict to Van Diemen's Land. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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A Frog in the Billabong
The memoir of a French woman living in Tasmania. English translation edition.
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