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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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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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A Life with the Birds of Tasmania – Els Wakefield (2026) [New Release Heavy Hardback Edition]
Added: Jun 6, 2026

A comprehensive modern compendium and personal memoir documenting the extraordinarily diverse birdlife of Lutruwita / Tasmania. Compiled by Els Wakefield, one of the state's most experienced lifelong birders, this heavy large-format volume acts as both a detailed reference work and a visual celebration of the island's avian fauna.


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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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A Terrible Beauty – History of the Gordon River Country | Richard Flanagan | 1985 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Richard Flanagan's first book — published in 1985, more than a decade before his fiction career began, and long before The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. A Terrible Beauty is a history of the Gordon River country in Tasmania's south-west wilderness — the landscape that was at the centre of the Franklin Dam controversy in the early 1980s.


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A Thousand Pleasures, A Million Treasures

The life and times of shells, crabs and other beach creatures on the North West coast of Tasmania.


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Alpine Tasmania - flora and vegetation of the high country, with photographs by Peter Dombrovskis | Jamie Kirkpatrick | 1997 [USED – SC]

An illustrated guide to Tasmania's alpine flora and vegetation, by botanist Jamie Kirkpatrick, with colour photographs by Peter Dombrovskis. The book covers the alpine environment, the flora, the state's alpine plant communities, and a section on conservation.


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Alpine Wildflowers of Tasmania plant identikit

A pocket-sized field guide to identifying the alpine wildflowers of Tasmania's high country, part of the "Plant Identikit" series.

See Related Products below for more Tasmanian plant field guides — order two or more titles together and we'll combine postage into one parcel.


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Aurora Chaser's Handbook – How to Find and Photograph the Aurora Australis | Margaret Sonnemann | 2nd Edition 2022 [NEW – SC]

Margaret Sonnemann's practical guide to finding and photographing the Aurora Australis — the southern lights — over Tasmania and southern Australia. Tasmania sits at the right latitude to see the aurora regularly during periods of high solar activity, and the island's dark skies — away from mainland city light pollution — give exceptional viewing conditions. The Tasmanian Midlands in particular, including the country around Ross and Campbell Town, offers some of the darkest night skies in the island's accessible areas.


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Bare Winter - Forest photography - signed, numbered copy HCDJ

Forest photography by Kirsty Pilkington in Tasmania.


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Behind the Scenery - Tasmania's landforms and geology

Published by the Tasmanian Department of Education and the Arts, this book explains Tasmania's landforms and geology through the processes that shaped them, in chapters covering weathering, soils and soil erosion, groundwater, river development, waves and coastlines, and glaciation, among others.


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Beneath the Tamar – More Than Silt | David Maynard & Troy Gaston | 2010 | Signed by Both Authors [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A photographic survey of the marine life found in the Tamar River and estuary in northern Tasmania. The Tamar is often thought of as a muddy, silty waterway — but beneath the surface it supports a surprising diversity of marine life, including weedy seadragons, seahorses and a wide range of other estuarine species.


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Benny's Quest for the Tasmanian Tiger

Tasmanian artist James Voute has written this illustrated chapter book for children aged 8 to 11 years.


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Birds of Tasmania - an annotated checklist
An annotated checklist of Tasmanian birds, with photographs.

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