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.
A Step Too Far
Life as a Country Cop - this book gives you a front row seat, or perhaps a backstage pass, to a life in the police force.
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A Train Driver's Story - signed
The memoir of a Tasmanian train driver, captures the evolving culture of working in the railways.
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After Port Arthur
A decade on, journalist Carol Altmann looked at how the people, the place, the killer, and the whole of Australia had changed since the horrific massacre at one of Australia's most infamous historic landmarks, Port Arthur convict site.
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Against The Odds - Tasmanian timber pioneers Risbys 1826-1995
Risby Brothers Timber Merchants was founded in Hobart in 1844 by Joseph Risby, and remained in family hands until it closed in the early 1990s — one of Tasmania's longest-running family-owned businesses. The company expanded across the state over the following century.
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Alan Villiers – Voyager of the Winds | Kate Lance | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]
A biography of Alan Villiers, one of the last great sailing ship seamen and one of the most significant maritime writers of the 20th century. Written by Kate Lance and published in 2009. Villiers was based in Tasmania for a formative part of his career. He worked as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury, and it was from Hobart that he joined a Norwegian whaling fleet bound for Antarctica as a reporter.
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Ali's People
One hundred of former Examiner journalist Alison Andrews' interviews with Tasmanian local identities.
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Alice and Daniel Stanfield
A First Fleet family's impact on Australia - the family history of some of the marine privates who came to Australia with the First Fleet, and their descendants.
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All That We Inherit - Walkers in Van Diemen's Land
All That We Inherit - being family memorials of the Walkers and Mathers of Hobart and the reminiscences and memoirs of James Backhouse Walker F.R.G.S., solicitor and Sarah Benson Walker, the wife of George Washington Walker, banker both of early Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land.
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An Activist Life - Christine Milne autobiography
An Activist Life is the story of an apparently ordinary woman - Christine Milne, a high-school English teacher from northwest Tasmania - who became a fiery environmental warrior and Greens leader, pitted against some of the most powerful business and political forces in the country.
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![Alan Villiers – Voyager of the Winds | Kate Lance | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/alan-villiers-voyager-on-the-winds-LS6vAc.png "Alan Villiers – Voyager of the Winds | Kate Lance | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]")
