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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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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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Walk into History in Southern Tasmania - signed David Leaman

A Tasmanian geologist, describes 65 walks across southern Tasmania, from Mt Wellington and the Wellington Range through to the Tasman Peninsula. Each walk pairs track notes with the history — and at times the contested land-use issues — connected to the place.


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Walks in Nature Tasmania | Andrew Bain & Anna Carlile | 2nd Edition 2022 [NEW – SC]

Fifty walking trails from across Tasmania, ranging in length and difficulty and colour-coded by season — useful for planning walks at different times of year and knowing which trails are best suited to summer versus winter conditions.


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Watcher of the Skies - Alfred Barrett Biggs

The story of Alfred Barrett Biggs, pioneer in astronomy, seismology and telecommunications.


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Whales and Seals of Tasmania
A vintage booklet from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart, introducing the whales and seals of Tasmania.

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – Death and Disappearance in Tasmania's Wild Places | Paul Helleman | 2025 | Signed [NEW – SC]

Paul Helleman's account of deaths and disappearances in Tasmania's national parks, reserves and wild places —  covering incidents from across the island's wilderness areas, indexed and thoroughly researched. The book documents what can go wrong when people venture into Tasmania's bush and mountains: walkers lost on the Overland Track, incidents in the Southwest, disappearances never resolved, and the search and rescue operations that followed. signed


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Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean? Lake Pedder flooding protest |SC USED|

Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean? She tried to stop the flooding of Lake Pedder...


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Where the Slime Mould Creeps – The Fascinating World of Myxomycetes | Sarah Lloyd | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good]

Sarah Lloyd's exploration of myxomycetes — the slime moulds — published by the author in 2015. Myxomycetes are among the most extraordinary organisms in the natural world: neither fungi, nor plants, nor animals. They exist as single-celled amoebae, then aggregate into a flowing mass that moves as a single organism in search of food, before forming fruiting bodies to spread spores.


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Where to See Wildlife in Tasmania | Dave Watts & Cathie Plowman | 2008 [SC]

A guide to 29 specific locations across Tasmania where you have a good chance of seeing native wildlife in the field — written by wildlife photographer Dave Watts and Cathie Plowman and published in 2008. Each location entry covers what you're likely to see there, the best time of day and year to visit, and practical notes on access


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White Pointer South – A Compendium of White Shark Encounters, Captures and Attacks in Tasmanian Waters | Chris Black | 2010 [HC]

A detailed record of white shark interactions in Tasmanian waters from the establishment of the British colony in Van Diemen's Land through to the early 21st century — covering captures, sightings, encounters and attacks documented over nearly two centuries.


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