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The Straitsfolk - John Scott and his Tasmanian Aboriginal Family, David Howie and his Aboriginal Associates See details
The Straitsfolk - John Scott and his Tasmanian Aboriginal Family, David Howie and his Aboriginal Associates
Added: Jul 28, 2026

British sealer John Scott arrived in Bass Strait in 1806 and had children with at least three Tasmanian Aboriginal women, fathering at least nine children before drowning off King Island in 1843. Scottish-born David Howie, appointed Constable of the Straits, patrolled Bass Strait and King Island; in 1845 he played a key role in the aftermath of the Cataraqui disaster. This book traces the lives and Tasmanian Aboriginal descendants of both men, drawing together family trees, John Scott's own diary, and the wider Bass Strait sealing community of the 19th century.

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Jorgen Jorgenson and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land with fold-out map HCDJ See details
Jorgen Jorgenson and the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land with fold-out map HCDJ
Added: Jul 25, 2026

A  reconstruction of Jorgen Jorgenson's 'lost' book on Tasmanian aboriginal customs and habits, and on his role in Van Diemen's Land roving parties and the Black Line.

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A Very Secret Trade – The Dark Story of Gentlemen Anthropological Collectors in Tasmania | Cassandra Pybus | 2024 [NEW – SC] See details
A Very Secret Trade – The Dark Story of Gentlemen Anthropological Collectors in Tasmania | Cassandra Pybus | 2024 [NEW – SC]

In the 19th century, European collectors and museum curators cultivated contacts in Van Diemen's Land who could supply them with specimens — not just thylacines and platypuses, but human remains. The belief that Tasmania's original Aboriginal people were a unique race facing extinction drove the European scientific community to scramble for human exhibits, creating a clandestine trade in human bones that reached to the highest levels of colonial society.

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Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles See details
Aboriginal Convicts - Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles
This book is about the 130 aboriginal convicts who were transported to and within the Australian penal colonies. They lived, laboured, were punished, and died alongside other convicts, but until this ground breaking book, their stories had largely been forgotten.
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An Immigrant of 1824 - George Augustus Robinson See details
An Immigrant of 1824 - George Augustus Robinson
Subsequently known in Van Diemen's Land as the conciliator with the Tasmanian aboriginal people, George Robinson first came to the colony as a free settler, and kept a journal of his experiences on the voyage on the Triton. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Baptised in Blood See details
Baptised in Blood
The shocking secret history of Sorell in Tasmania - the history behind a Tasmanian Aboriginal massacre, of Charles Routley serial killer, and the activities of bushranger Matthew Brady's gang.
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Beyond Awakening See details
Beyond Awakening
A history of the Aboriginal tribes of North West Tasmania.
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Born into This - used See details
Born into This - used
Short stories from Adam Thompson, a Tasmanian aboriginal writer.
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Bruising The Red Earth - Ochre mining and ritual in Aboriginal Tasmania See details
Bruising The Red Earth - Ochre mining and ritual in Aboriginal Tasmania
A series of essays that explore the mining of red ochre by Aboriginal Tasmanians from several angles. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Bruny D'Entrecasteaux and his encounter with Tasmanian Aborigines See details
Bruny D'Entrecasteaux and his encounter with Tasmanian Aborigines
Bruny D'Entrecasteaux and his encounter with Tasmanian Aborigines from Provence to Recherche Bay.
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Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC] See details
Buckley's Chance – William Buckley and How He Conquered a New World | Garry Linnell | 2020 [SC]

In 1803, William Buckley escaped from a British convict settlement at Port Phillip Bay and disappeared into the Australian bush. He was found 32 years later — barefoot, dressed in animal skins, carrying a spear, and having largely forgotten the English language. In between, he had lived with the Wathaurong people of what is now Victoria.

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Encountering Terra Australis See details
Encountering Terra Australis
The Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders.
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