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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.

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Graft - hardcover
Graft - Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land - Maggie MacKellar's memoir of farming merino sheep on Tasmania's East Coast.

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Graft - softcover
In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life - and death - that surrounds her through the cycle of lambing seasons.

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Green Nomads - signed, used
Bob Brown's photographic tribute to the beauty and bounty of Australia and the thousands of Australians who work to protect our unique environment.

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Greetings from Malta - World War II
A memoir of Malta during World War II by Shirley Thomas of North Down, Tasmania with an introduction by Claudio Alcorso.

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Growing Sideways
A journey through dark and light... and gallons of paint.

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Growing up in Stanley
Recollections of a boyhood growing up in Stanley on Tasmania's north-west coast in the period 1920-1940.

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Gustav Weindorfer of Cradle Mountain by Dr G.F.J. Bergman, 1959

A 1959 biography of Gustav Weindorfer (1874-1932), the Austrian-born naturalist who, with his wife Kate, built Waldheim chalet at Cradle Mountain from 1912 and campaigned for the area to become a national park.


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Half a Lifetime - 39 Years in Forestry in Tasmania, by North-East historian Garry Richardson | Foreword by Bob Gordon, Forestry Tasmania | 2009 [USED – SC]

Garry Richardson was born in the Huon Valley in 1950 and joined the Tasmanian Forestry Commission straight from school. Over 39 years he rose to being an experienced practitioner who acted as reviewer and mentor during the introduction of the state's Forest Practices Code — a career spanning enormous change in how Tasmania managed its forests. This is his own account, full of anecdotes reflecting the range of skills and life experience gathered across a forestry career, and the friendships built with colleagues across the wider forest sector.


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Hear the Train Blow - Patsy Adam-Smith autobiography of growing up in the bush |SC|

Patsy Adam-Smith's autobiography of growing up as the child of railway workers in the Australian bush of Victoria's Goulburn Valley.


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Heart of Exile (Patsy Adam-Smith) - 1848 Irish Exiles in Van Diemen's Land - (Used)

Written by popular and highly readable Australian historian Patsy Adam-Smith, this compelling volume tracks the lives, adventures, and fortunes of the seven prominent Irish patriots banished to the Van Diemen's Land penal colony following the 1848 Young Ireland rebellion.


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