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Transplantation - Jocelyn HC Thomas & Charlotte Partridge
Added: Mar 9, 2024
 
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Research celebrating a Tasmanian family bicentennial 1824-2024.

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More to a Life than Cricket
Added: Dec 29, 2023
 
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In More to a Life than Cricket, Rick Smith tells of some of the extraordinary lives cricketers have lived outside the game.

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Who Gives a Figg - Snowy & Chris Figg
Added: Nov 3, 2023
 
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The Tasmanian family history of Snowy and Chris Figg of Parattah, near Oatlands in the Southern Midlands.

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The Usurper - Jorgen Jorgenson
 
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The turbulent life of renowned convict Jorgen Jorgenson in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780-1841.

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The Plonkermaker - Rossarden
 
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Paul Tapps's memoir as a boy growing up in Rossarden, a Tasmanian mining hamlet in the northern Midlands.

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One Tough Bastard - Mike Wilson
 
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The revealing story of Mike Wilson of the Huon Valley.

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Half a Lifetime - 39 Years in Forestry
 
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Garry Richardson describes his working life with forestry in Tasmania. This is a USED book.

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I Shed My Skin - A Furneaux Islands Story
 
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I Shed My Skin - A Furneaux Islands Story evolved out of an exhibition of Jane Giblin’s artwork which toured Tasmania in 2019. It revolves around strangers who come to a remote land and learn how to win a living from it.

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Bad Ground - inside the Beaconsfield mine rescue - signed
 
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On 25 April 2006 a rock fall in the Beaconsfield gold mine in northern Tasmania trapped Todd Russell and Brant Webb 925 metres underground for two weeks, and killed their fellow miner Larry Knight. This is a USED book.

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Let Me Out of Russia - a struggle for freedom
 
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A true story of a Tasmanian family.

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My Home in Tasmania
 
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Louisa Anne Meredith was the wife of one of the early British settlers in Van Diemen's Land. Both she and her husband Charles delighted in the natural world, and it is this delight coupled with Mrs Meredith's exquisite observations that bring to life the bush and the early days of European settlement in Van Diemen's Land. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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There Be Dragons - stories of a Tasmanian Childhood
 
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Heather Donaldson's short stories about her childhood in Tasmania are full of scares and dares.

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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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