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.
Question 7 - softcover
Richard Flanagan blends memoir and history, tracing his father's WWII imprisonment near Hiroshima through to his own life in Tasmania. Softcover, 2024, 280 pages.
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Reaching out from Willowdene
Memoirs and stories of the author's mentors, by Dr Tony McCormack — the latest in his series tracing farming families of the Evandale, Nile, Clarendon and Blessington districts of Northern Tasmania, following on from Reaching Out From Trafalgar, Reaching Out From Evandale and Reaching Out From Ben Lomond.
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Real Tassie Legends
Chronicles of an earlier Tasmania.
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Relinquished Returned Rejected
Jackee Ashwin tells her personal story of hiding the shame of teenage pregnancy in 1970s Australia, giving up her baby for adoption, and the guilt that accompanied her life thereafter.
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Risby Ancestors - used
An illustrated family history from convict beginnings.
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Robert Lyall - The King of Westbury
A Tasmanian biography and family history capturing the life and work of Richard Lyall, transported to Van Diemen's Land as a convict, and subsequently owner of the Westbury Inn.
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Ruby of Trowutta
Recollections of a country postmistress.
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Samuel Bate - Singular Character
Biography of the turbulent life a of an early British immigrant to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania - Samuel Bate, 1776-1849.
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![Reaching Out From Trafalgar – Stories of Farmers and Their Farms Around the Trafalgar Estate, Evandale | Tony McCormack | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/Reaching-Out-From-Trafalgar-aoFMN1.png "Reaching Out From Trafalgar – Stories of Farmers and Their Farms Around the Trafalgar Estate, Evandale | Tony McCormack | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good]")
