A rare and highly collectible multi-disciplinary study of Hobart's iconic mountain, kunanyi / Mount Wellington.
A highly sought-after multi-disciplinary study of Hobart's iconic mountain, kunanyi / Mount Wellington. Published in 1996 by West Wind Press, this volume explores the mountain through three distinct, powerful lens: an evocative literary essay by Booker Prize-winning Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan, 50 vibrant landscape photographs by legendary wilderness photographer Peter Dombrovskis, and a detailed ecological natural history survey by Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick.
P.E. de Strzelecki, a Polish-born explorer and geologist, spent 1839–1843 surveying large parts of New South Wales, Gippsland and Van Diemen's Land on foot, during which he identified and named Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest peak. This book compiles the results of that survey — mineral assays, soil analyses and geological mapping — accompanied by a fold-out geological map, sections and diagrams, and figures of organic remains.
An 1880 edition of one of Louisa Anne Meredith's best-known works on Tasmanian natural history and colonial life. Meredith — who lived at Cambria near Swansea on the East Coast for much of her life — was one of the most prolific writers and illustrators of colonial Tasmania, and her natural history books are among the most vivid first-hand accounts of the island's wildlife and rural life in the 19th century.
John Bufton's account of Tasmania's contribution to the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa — referred to here by the contemporary term "Transvaal War," not to be confused with the earlier First Boer War of 1880–81.
A scarce 1933 first-edition collection of deeply reflective essays by the celebrated 20th-century theologian and pastor, Dr. Frank William Boreham. Highly regarded for his eloquent prose, Boreham's out-of-print titles remain heavily sought after by global collectors.
A history and description of the Huon River district south of Hobart, written by Anne Stafford Bird under her married name Mrs Arthur H. Garnsey and published by Whitcombe & Tombs, undated but around 1947. The Huon district — with its apple orchards, timber industry, fishing communities and the settlements along the river from Huonville south to Geeveston and beyond — had a distinct and largely self-contained character through the first half of the 20th century, before roads and postwar development changed the valley.

