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Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds | Dave Watts | 2025 Updated Edition
Added: Oct 7, 2018

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.


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A Life with the Birds of Tasmania – Els Wakefield (2026) [New Release Heavy Hardback Edition]
Added: Jun 6, 2026

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.


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Thylacines Out of Season
Added: Mar 30, 2026
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.

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A Catalogue of The Minerals of Tasmania - hardcover

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.


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A Descriptive List of the Birds of Tasmania and adjacent islands (1917) – Clive E. Lord [Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club]

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.


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A Handbook of the Birds of Tasmania and its Dependencies (1910) – Frank Mervyn Littler [Sir W.E.L.H. Crowther Association Copy]

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.


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A Life with the Birds of Tasmania – Els Wakefield (2026) [New Release Heavy Hardback Edition]

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.


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A Monograph of Nototherium Tasmanicum (1915) - Extinct Megafauna & Diprotodontidae Osteology
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

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A Photographic Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Tasmania | Nigel Forteath | 2024 [NEW – SC]

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.


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A Terrible Beauty – History of the Gordon River Country | Richard Flanagan | 1985 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

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.


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A Thousand Pleasures, A Million Treasures

The life and times of shells, crabs and other beach creatures on the North West coast of Tasmania.


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Bare Winter
Forest photography by Kirsty Pilkington in Tasmania.

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Behind the Scenery
Tasmania's landforms and geology.

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