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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.