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Prosperous
Added: May 15, 2025
 
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A history of the Kennedy Murrays and the origins of historic Evandale in early colonial Australia.

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Anne Frankland - the First Lady of Secheron House
Added: Mar 1, 2025
 
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A biography of Anne Frankland nee Mason (1793-1842), wife of Van Diemen's Land Surveyor-General George Frankland.

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Butterfly on a Pin - Alannah Hill
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A fashion designer's memoir of love, despair and reinvention.

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Footprint of Consequence - memories of a young Englishwoman at Cape Grimm
 
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In 1966 Brigit Fleming Smith, a young Englishwoman, married an Australian from Victoria who had recently bought enough shares in the old Chartered Land Company of VDL to give him overall control in farming Woolnorth at Cape Grim in Tasmania's north-west.

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Forgotten Corners - Essays in Search of an Island's Soul
 
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For the author, Pete Hay, home matters, in this case Tasmania. He might be descended from a Point Puer convict boy and be the son of a legend of Australia's 2/40th 'Tasmanian' Battalion, but he does not claim belonging to Tasmania as a birthright: "You don't inherit a place" he tells us, "you commit to it."

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From Green Knowe to Green Hill and Beyond
 
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A strand of the Reid story, a local Tasmanian family history and memoir.

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From Rabbit Traps to Rembrandts - a memoir by Nevin Hurst
 
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Told in his own plain and unpretentious style, Nevin Hurst's memoir of a long and occasionally turbulent life is an account of a journey from humble beginnings in rural Tasmania to leadership in the world of Australian art. Signed.

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From the Proteus to Prosperity
 
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In the steps of John Walduck (1809-1886); a convict family history.

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Gatty - Prince of Navigators
 
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A biography of world-famous Tasmanian (and Campbell Town native) Harold Gatty, known as the Prince of Navigators for flying around the world in just eight days in 1931 with American pilot Wiley Post in the Winnie Mae, a Lockheed Vega aircraft.

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Glimpses of Graeme
 
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Reflections on the work of renowned Australian dancer Graeme Murphy, who spent much of his childhood living in Tasmania.

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Grace Tame - the ninth life of a diamond miner
 
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A memoir.

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Green Nomads - signed, used
 
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Bob Brown's photographic tribute to the beauty and bounty of Australia and the thousands of Australians who work to protect our unique environment.

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Growing up in Stanley
 
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Recollections of a boyhood growing up in Stanley on Tasmania's north-west coast in the period 1920-1940.

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