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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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Lake Pedder – Why a National Park Must Be Saved | Dick Johnson (Ed.) | 1972 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A campaign booklet published in 1972 to support the fight to save Lake Pedder from flooding for the expansion of Tasmania's hydro-electric power scheme — edited by Dick Johnson and published while the campaign was still being contested.


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Little Explorers Guide to Tasmanian National Parks | Chloe Butterfield | 2025 [NEW – SC]

A guide to eleven of Tasmania's national parks written and illustrated for children, covering Narawntapu, Mount William, Freycinet, Maria Island, Tasman, Mount Field, Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers, Walls of Jerusalem, Southwest, Cradle Mountain and South Bruny.


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Macquarie Island – The Story of the Ships and Men that Visited | J.S. Cumpston | 1968 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

J.S. Cumpston's history of the ships that visited Macquarie Island and the men who sailed them — from the earliest sealers and whalers through the Mawson expeditions and the early ANARE scientific resupply voyages. Macquarie Island, situated roughly halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica in the Southern Ocean, has been administered by Tasmania since 1900 and is now a World Heritage site.


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Memo for a Saner World
Dr Bob Brown, founding member of the Australian Greens political party and famed Tasmanian Franklin River blockade activist, sets out what he stands for and his hopes for a better world.

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Memories of Seasons Past – 60 Years of Gardening by the Tamar River | Paula Guy | 2012 | Signed [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

Paula Guy's memoir of sixty years gardening beside the Tamar River in Launceston.


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My Birds
The author John Rowland Skemp, a fourth generation Tasmanian, grew up on a small mountain farm at Myrtle Bank in North East Tasmania - in this book he shares his love and knowledge of birds.

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Occurrences of Gemstone Minerals in Tasmania | Mineral Resources Tasmania | 9th Edition 2023 [NEW – SC]

An A to Z guide to the gemstone minerals found in Tasmania — published by Mineral Resources Tasmania in the 9th edition of October 2023, with colour photographs throughout. The booklet covers the range of gemstone minerals occurring across the state — where they're found, what they look like, and what conditions they form in. Includes sapphire, topaz, zircon, garnet, diamond, and the range of other gem minerals specific to Tasmanian geological deposits.


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One Careless Night - Tasmanian tiger

One Careless Night tells the story of Tasmania's last thylacine, that died in captivity after the zookeeper neglected to put the animals in their shelters for the night. The Tasmanian tiger and many other animals died that night of exposure.


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One Hundred Islands – The Flora of the Outer Furneaux | Harris, Buchanan & Connolly | 2001 [USED – HC]

A botanical reference covering the flora of the smaller islands of the outer Furneaux Group in eastern Bass Strait — those lying off Flinders Island, Cape Barren Island and Clarke Island.


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Optimism
Bob Brown reflections on a life of action.

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