Nature

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.

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

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

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.