Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds (Updated Edition)
By Dave Watts
Long considered the essential pocket companion for local birdwatchers and visitors alike, Dave Watts’ definitive field guide is finally back in stock after months of being unavailable. This 192-page softcover provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use directory covering all major bird species found across Tasmania's diverse wilderness.
A comprehensive modern compendium and personal memoir documenting the extraordinarily diverse birdlife of Lutruwita / Tasmania. Compiled by Els Wakefield, one of the state's most experienced lifelong birders, this heavy large-format volume acts as both a detailed reference work and a visual celebration of the island's avian fauna.
An art book of Tasmanian tigers in strange times and places - allegorical dreams of a lost species captured in paintings by Lindsay Arnold.
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Books both current and out-of-print relating to Tasmanian nature that can be bought from in The Book Cellar / Just Tassie Books in Campbell Town, Tasmania.
Geological Survey Bulletin 73 — an alphabetical, illustrated catalogue of every mineral species recorded in Tasmania, compiled by R.S. Bottrill and W.E. Baker and published by Mineral Resources Tasmania in May 2021. Tasmania has an unusually rich and diverse mineralogy, a product of its complex geological history and its long mining heritage on the west coast and elsewhere. This catalogue documents that diversity systematically.
A scarce, pocket-sized early 20th-century field handbook detailing the native bird species of Tasmania and its surrounding islands. Compiled by noted scientist Clive E. Lord in conjunction with the Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club, this 48-page booklet is an important primary document for early Australian ornithology collectors.
A first-edition copy of Littler's 1910 guide to Tasmanian birdlife. Please note: Physically, this is a heavily worn, poor-condition copy, but it has interesting Tasmanian historical provenance.
A comprehensive modern compendium and personal memoir documenting the extraordinarily diverse birdlife of Lutruwita / Tasmania. Compiled by Els Wakefield, one of the state's most experienced lifelong birders, this heavy large-format volume acts as both a detailed reference work and a visual celebration of the island's avian fauna.
A study based on fossilised remains of Tasmania's giant wombat, published by the Tasmanian Department of Mines as Geological Survey Record no.4.
• Diprotodontidae / Diprotodontid fossil morphology
• Vombatiforms and Pleistocene megafauna
• Osteology of extinct Australian marsupials
A field guide to the dragonflies and damselflies found in Tasmania, written by Nigel Forteath and published in 2024. The book covers the species found in Tasmanian freshwater habitats — lakes, rivers, ponds and wetlands — with large colour photographs for identification alongside notes on habitat, behaviour and distribution.
Richard Flanagan's first book — published in 1985, more than a decade before his fiction career began, and long before The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. A Terrible Beauty is a history of the Gordon River country in Tasmania's south-west wilderness — the landscape that was at the centre of the Franklin Dam controversy in the early 1980s.