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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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Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - facsimile of Louisa Anne Meredith's 1860 & 1891 volumes | 2015 [NEW – SC]

A facsimile edition of Louisa Anne Meredith's Bush Friends of Tasmania, originally published in 1860, with the second volume following some 31 years later. Regarded as one of colonial Australia's foremost women writers and artists, Meredith — author, poet, artist and illustrator — provides her own observations and illustrations of the flora she encountered in her adopted home of Tasmania.


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101 Collective Nouns | Jennifer Cossins | 2017 [NEW – SC – Ages 4+]

Jennifer Cossins's illustrated picture book of 101 collective nouns — a murder of crows, a wisdom of wombats, a smack of jellyfish — each paired with a full-colour animal illustration. Cossins is a Tasmanian illustrator and author whose work has attracted attention well beyond Tasmania.


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A Catalogue of The Minerals of Tasmania - hardcover

Geological Survey Bulletin 73 — an alphabetical, illustrated catalogue of every mineral species recorded in Tasmania, compiled by R.S. Bottrill and W.E. Baker and published by Mineral Resources Tasmania in May 2021. Tasmania has an unusually rich and diverse mineralogy, a product of its complex geological history and its long mining heritage on the west coast and elsewhere. This catalogue documents that diversity systematically.


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A Descriptive List of the Birds of Tasmania and adjacent islands (1917) – Clive E. Lord [Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club]

A scarce, pocket-sized early 20th-century field handbook detailing the native bird species of Tasmania and its surrounding islands. Compiled by noted scientist Clive E. Lord in conjunction with the Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club, this 48-page booklet is an important primary document for early Australian ornithology collectors.


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A Field Guide to Tasmanian Frogs

A pocket-sized, colour illustrated guide for identifying the different types of frogs in Tasmania.


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A Handbook of the Birds of Tasmania and its Dependencies (1910) – Frank Mervyn Littler [Sir W.E.L.H. Crowther Association Copy]

A first-edition copy of Littler's 1910 guide to Tasmanian birdlife. Please note: Physically, this is a heavily worn, poor-condition copy, but it has interesting Tasmanian historical provenance.


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A High Country Heritage - Simon Cubit & Des Murray |SIGNED HC|

The history and heritage of the Tasmanian high country, illustrated throughout with black and white sketches. Signed by both authors.


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

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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A Monograph of Nototherium Tasmanicum (1915) - Extinct Megafauna & Diprotodontidae Osteology
A study based on fossilised remains of Tasmania's giant wombat, published by the Tasmanian Department of Mines as Geological Survey Record no.4.
• Diprotodontidae / Diprotodontid fossil morphology
• Vombatiforms and Pleistocene megafauna
• Osteology of extinct Australian marsupials

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A Photographic Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Tasmania | Nigel Forteath | 2024 [NEW – SC]

A field guide to the dragonflies and damselflies found in Tasmania, written by Nigel Forteath and published in 2024. The book covers the species found in Tasmanian freshwater habitats — lakes, rivers, ponds and wetlands — with large colour photographs for identification alongside notes on habitat, behaviour and distribution.


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