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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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A Great Tasmanian
A written portrait of Frederick Smithies OBE - Tasmanian explorer, mountaineer, and photographer.

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A Hand on the Helm – The Life and Times of George Weymouth Cox 1909–1992 | G.W. Cox | 1993 | Numbered 107/200 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The biography of George Weymouth Cox — Tasmanian bushman and conservationist — covering his life from 1909 to 1992.


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A Living Force - Andrew Inglis Clark
A Living Force and the ideal of the Commonwealth - a book about the work of Tasmanian lawyer Andrew Inglis Clark in developing the Australian Constitution. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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A Loo of One's Own – Australia's First Female Parliamentarians | Eleri Harris | 2025 [NEW – HC – Ages 6–10]

When Dame Enid Lyons became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in 1943, she and Senator Dorothy Tangney faced a problem nobody had thought to solve: there was no women's toilet anywhere near the parliamentary chambers. Eleri Harris's picture book tells the true story of Australia's first female parliamentarians — framed around this wonderfully absurd practical obstacle.


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A Miscellany of Tasmaniana - Selected Vice-Regal Speeches
William Cox's excerpts from speeches he gave as Governor of Tasmania (2004-2008).

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A Mortal Flame – Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australian Romance Writer 1874–1969 | Alison Alexander | 1994 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A biography of Marie Bjelke Petersen — one of Australia's most popular novelists of the early 20th century, now largely forgotten despite having sold hundreds of thousands of books in her time.


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A Peopled Frontier - the European Heritage of the Tarkine Area
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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A Place in the Stockyard - used
A celebration of the agricultural successes and tribulations of Tasmanian women living and working in agriculture and on farming properties.

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A Salute to Max Angus – Tasmanian Watercolour Painter | Alison Alexander | 2021 [HCDJ]

Alison Alexander's biography of Max Angus — one of Tasmania's most significant artists of the 20th century, whose watercolours documented the Tasmanian landscape across a century of life from 1905 to 2012.


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A Step Back
From Duty to Gumboots...

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