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.
Bound by Every Tie of Duty
A biography of John Lewes Pedder, Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land from 1824 to 1854.
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Boxer Hobo
When a homeless alcoholic boxer wakes up in a Tasmanian Neuro-Trauma ward with a fractured skull, doctors inform him he won't be able to box or drink alcohol ever again.
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Breaking the Mould
The story of Joy, a biography of someone who overcame a childhood of violence and abuse in Tasmania.
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Bridging the Strait
A salute to the first man to fly across Bass Strait from mainland Australia to Tasmania, Lieut Arthur L Long.
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Bush Life in Tasmania by James Fenton |SC reprint c1980s|
James Fenton emigrated from Ireland with his family in 1834, and from 1840 pioneered farming land on Tasmania's Forth River, clearing heavy forest by hand. After visiting the Yarra during Victoria's 1850s gold rush, he saw a market for timber and turned to lumbering on the Forth before retiring from farming in 1879.
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Bush Lives 2 – More Tales from the Tasmanian Back Blocks | Nic Haygarth | 2025 [NEW – SC]
The second volume of Nic Haygarth's collection of stories from the Tasmanian bush — 300 pages of tales drawn from the back blocks of the island, covering the people, places and ways of life that define rural and remote Tasmania. Haygarth has spent years researching and writing about Tasmanian bush history, and this second volume follows the same approach as the first — oral histories, anecdotes, characters and incidents from across the state's rural and wilderness fringes.
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Bushfire Heartbreak
Bushfire Heartbreak depicts the horror and threat to life of bushfires.
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