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Riverine - Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley
Added: Sep 24, 2026

Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.


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Islands of the Island State - Rees Campbell explores 40 of Tasmania's 6,500 offshore islands, their history & wild food | 2026 [NEW – SC]
Added: Sep 8, 2026

Rees Campbell, author of the bestselling Eat MORE Wild Tasmanian, turns her attention to Tasmania's off-shore islands. There are some 6,500 islands, islets, rocks and reefs around the state, and this book visits 40 of them — from the largest, Flinders Island, to the remote and uninhabited Pedra Branca and Mewstone in the Southern Ocean, to some of the smallest and closest, like the Harbour Islets in the state's far North West.


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Books on Tasmania's natural world – wildlife, native flora, wilderness areas and national parks. Popular with bushwalkers and naturalists.

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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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Trampled Wilderness - History of South West Tasmania volume one

Volume One of the Tasmanian classic Trampled Wilderness introduces the absorbing history of the opening up of Tasmania's South West in the early part of the 1800s.


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Trampled Wilderness - History of South West Tasmania volume two

The Gowllands' account of pioneering endeavour in the far reaches of Tasmania continues here in Volume Two of Trampled Wilderness.


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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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