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The Tasmanian Herbal Apothecary
Added: Jul 20, 2026

C M Nicholson's guide to Tasmanian herbal remedies, including salve-making basics and bush first aid. Self-published, softcover, 2026, 239 pages.


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The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Jul 15, 2026

Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation in the last 200 years. Justine Hausheer's 2026 book documents what is being lost and what is being done to prevent further extinctions.


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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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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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The World of Olegas Truchanas | Max Angus | 1975 | Fifth Edition [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

Max Angus's tribute to Olegas Truchanas — the Lithuanian-born Tasmanian wilderness photographer, canoeist and environmental activist whose life and work directly shaped the course of Tasmanian conservation history. Truchanas arrived in Tasmania as a refugee after WWII and found in the island's wild places a landscape that moved him profoundly. He became an extraordinary wilderness photographer and one of the most skilled canoeists in Australia, making solo journeys through country that had defeated most previous expeditions


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Thylacine - the history, ecology and loss of the Tasmanian Tiger

A comprehensive exploration of the thylacine, the Tasmanain Tiger, which until the mid-20th century was the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial; its disappearance has left many questions and contradictions.


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Thylacine – The Tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger | Eric Guiler | 1985 [USED – HCDJ]

Written by Dr Eric Guiler, who spent decades researching the thylacine and led the last official search expeditions for surviving animals in Tasmania. This book traces the thylacine from fossil evidence and Aboriginal rock art through to the bounty hunting era, the last captive animals at Hobart Zoo, and the searches conducted after the species was declared extinct.


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Thylacines Out of Season
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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Tiger Tales – Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger | Col Bailey | 2001 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A collection of thylacine encounter stories compiled by Col Bailey. Bailey spent decades investigating thylacine sightings and reports across Tasmania, and was one of the best-known figures in the ongoing search for evidence that the species may have survived beyond its official extinction. Tiger Tales brings together accounts and stories collected from people who believe they have encountered a thylacine, alongside Bailey's own field experience and perspective.


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Traces – The Photography of Chris Bell | 2025 [NEW – Linen-Bound HC]

Chris Bell's sixth book — a retrospective of fifty of his finest photographs from over 40 years photographing Tasmania's wild places, published to coincide with his major exhibition at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston in September 2025.


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Treasures of Beachcombing - Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and more

Details and accounts of beachcombing in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and more.


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TreeFlip - life-size guide to the trees of Tasmania

A fold-out laminated field guide to the trees of Tasmania — printed life-size so you can compare leaves directly in the field. Covers the common native trees you're likely to encounter on Tasmanian bush tracks, including eucalypts, sassafras, myrtle beech, celery-top pine, King Billy pine, leatherwood and others.


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Unexplored - Tasmanian wilderness photographs by Martin Hawes

Martin Hawes' fourth book of Tasmanian wilderness photographs.


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Van Diemen's Land Correspondents 1827–1849 – Letters to Sir William Hooker | T.E. Burns & J.R. Skemp (Eds.) | Frank Ellis (Ed.) | 1961 [USED – HC]

A collection of letters written from Van Diemen's Land to Sir William Hooker — director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew — between 1827 and 1849, compiled by T.E. Burns and J.R. Skemp. The correspondents include Ronald Campbell Gunn, Van Diemen's Land's most important colonial botanist; R.W. Lawrence; Jorgen Jorgenson — the extraordinary Dane who briefly became King of Iceland before being transported to Van Diemen's Land (the subject of Dan Sprod's biography The Usurper); and Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1837–1843.


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