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Friendly Mission – The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829–1834 | N.J.B. Plomley | First Edition 1966 [USED – HC]

The first edition of N.J.B. Plomley's landmark work — the edited journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson covering his time among the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land from 1829 to 1834. Robinson was the colonial government's self-appointed "Conciliator" to the Aboriginal population during the Black War period, and his journals are among the most detailed primary source records of that era.


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Pride Against Prejudice - Ida West reminiscences, Palawa autobiography

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.


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Musquito - Brutality and Exile
Explores the story of Musquito, an aboriginal resistance leader banished to Norfolk Island and subsequently hung in Van Diemen's Land.

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trouwerner – A Tasmanian Elder's Story of Ancient Wisdom and Hope | Aunty Patsy Cameron & Martin Flanagan | 2025 [NEW – SC]

Trouwerner is the Indigenous name for Tasmania itself — and this book is a yarn between three Tasmanians: Elder Aunty Patsy Cameron, the 28th Tasmanian Governor Kate Warner, and journalist Martin Flanagan. Aunty Patsy Cameron grew up on Flinders Island and traces her Aboriginal heritage through her mother's line to four ancestral grandmothers, and further back to the revered Pairrebeenne/Trawlwoolway clan leader Mannalargenna.


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Tongerlongeter – First Nations Leader & Tasmanian War Hero | Henry Reynolds & Nicholas Clements | 2021 [USED – SC – Very Good]

Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements retrieve one of Australia's greatest war heroes from historical obscurity. During Tasmania's Black War of 1823–31, Tongerlongeter led the most effective Aboriginal resistance campaign in Australian history.


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Unearthed - Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island - used
Aboriginal Tasmanian descendants are still living on Kangaroo Island today and this book is their story.

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Truganini - Journey through the apocalypse
The inspiring and haunting tale of Truganini, the aboriginal woman who became an icon for a monumental tragedy - the so-called extinction of the original people of Tasmania.

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Levee, Line and Martial Law - used
A history of the dispossession of the Mairremmener people in Van Diemen's Land 1803-1832, better known as the Oyster Bay Tribe and the Big River Tribe, but by reason of a common language and a single culture, one group, one people.

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Van Diemen's Land – An Aboriginal History | Murray Johnson & Ian McFarlane | 2015 [NEW – SC]

Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane's detailed history of Aboriginal Tasmania — covering more than 35,000 years of Aboriginal presence on the island from before its separation from mainland Australia through European contact, colonisation, the Black War, and the forced exile of the surviving Aboriginal population to Flinders Island.


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Tasmanian Aborigines - A History Since 1803
A history of Tasmania's Aborigines from white settlement through to modern times.

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