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![Musquito – The Real Story of a Legendary Colonial Warrior | Naomi Parry Duncan | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/musquito-parry-bJt4Si.png "Musquito – The Real Story of a Legendary Colonial Warrior | Naomi Parry Duncan | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
Naomi Parry Duncan's biography of Musquito — a Bidjigal man from the Sydney region who became one of the most significant First Nations resistance fighters of the early Australian colonies. Musquito was a young man when the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in 1788. Seventeen years later he was fighting for his Country west of Sydney, pursued by colonists. He was exiled first to Norfolk Island then to Van Diemen's Land, where he joined Palawa people in the resistance that ignited the Black War.
Joel Stephen Birnie grew up hearing the true stories about Tarenootairer, his earliest known ancestral grandmother (c.1806–58), taken from her family as a child by Bass Strait sealers, and tells his family's Tasmanian aboriginal history without the colonial lens.
![Palawa tunapri - Knowledge of Our Ancestors: Trish Hodge's record of Tasmanian Aboriginal plant uses for food, medicine & tools | 2025 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/palawa-tunapri-ICD3zu.png "Palawa tunapri - Knowledge of Our Ancestors: Trish Hodge's record of Tasmanian Aboriginal plant uses for food, medicine & tools | 2025 [NEW – SC]")
Trish Hodge, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman and descendant of Mannalargenna, spent twenty years researching and documenting the traditional uses of more than 350 native Tasmanian plants — for food, medicine, tools and seasonal knowledge.
Ida West reminiscences of a Tasmanian Aborigine - a reprint of the first autobiography published by a Palawa person. Ida "Aunty Ida" West (1919–2003) was born on Cape Barren Island and moved to Flinders Island as a child. She spent much of her life advocating for the rights, land and health of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community.
A collection of essays by Australian and international historians examining George Augustus Robinson's Friendly Mission — the journals Robinson kept during his time among the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land from 1829 to 1834, edited by N.J.B. Plomley and republished in a second edition in 2008.
Steps to the Scaffold traces the campaigns of Tasmania's Aboriginal bushrangers - among them Musquito, Black Tom Birch, Black Jack, Black Dick, Pevay and Timmy - through the lead-up to the Black War of 1826-31 and its individual figures' own stories.
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