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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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Jack Thwaites
A biography of pioneer Tasmanian bushwalker & conservationist Jack Thwaites from the early 20th century.

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James Fenton of Forth - a Tasmanian pioneer 1820-1904
A biographical and historical tribute to Tasmanian pioneer James Fenton, written to commemorate the centenary of his death.

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John Dyer 1809-1882 and his Descendants
A biography of John Dyer, a free (i.e. not a convict) immigrant to Van Diemen's Land who became in turn a Longford farmer, Hadspen innkeeper and Kentish / Sheffield pioneer.

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John Youl - The Forgotten Chaplain 1773-1877
A biography of the eventful life of John Youl, first chaplain of the Anglican Church in northern Tasmania.

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Just One Tasmanian Policeman
A book that details the working life of a police constable in Tasmania / Van Diemen's Land - James Stevens 1817-1883.

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Kate Weindorfer - a life at Cradle Mountain, partner in the Waldheim story | Sally Schnackenberg | 1995-2002 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Kate Julia Cowle (1863–1916), a Fingal-born pianist and amateur botanist, is recorded as the first European woman to summit Cradle Mountain, climbing it in January 1910 alongside her husband Gustav Weindorfer. Kate used her own inheritance to help purchase the Cradle Valley land on which the couple built Waldheim, their timber "forest home," opened to guests in 1913.


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Kettle on the Hob - Cotton family of Kelvedon, Quaker settlers on Tasmania's East Coast, 1828-1885 | Frances Cotton | 1991 [USED – SC]

Francis and Anna Maria Cotton, English Quakers, emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1828 with their young family and friend Dr George Fordyce Story, settling at Kelvedon, on the East Coast near Swansea. This book, compiled by a descendant, tells the family's story from 1828 to 1885, drawing on their letters and papers, including correspondence with son-in-law Joseph Benson Mather.


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Kindred – A Cradle Mountain Love Story | Kate Legge | 2024 [SC]

Kate Legge's biography of Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle — the Austrian immigrant and the Tasmanian woman who together fought to protect Cradle Mountain and establish it as a national park for all Australians. Weindorfer grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; Kate Cowle was climbing Tasmanian mountains when few women did. When they stood on Cradle Mountain's summit together in January 1910, they imagined a national park.


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King of the Wilderness: The Life of Deny King

Deny King spent 55 years living self-sufficiently at Melaleuca in Tasmania's remote South West wilderness – as a tin miner, naturalist, painter and ornithologist. He played a crucial role in saving the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot, had a fossil banksia species named in his honour, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to conservation. This is his extraordinary story.


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Knopwood - A Biography of the Reverend Robert Knopwood, Van Diemen's Land's First Chaplain - Geoffrey Stephens

A biography of Reverend Robert Knopwood - Van Diemen's Land's first colonial chaplain, magistrate, and diarist, whose journal remains a key record of early Hobart. By Geoffrey Stephens.


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