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.
This is the cookbook from Alistair Wise and Teena Kearney-Wise of Sweet Envy, an old-fashioned sweets parlour, cake shop and bakehouse all in one in North Hobart, Tasmania.
In 1798–99, Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed the colonial sloop Norfolk around the island that would become Tasmania, proving for the first time that it was indeed an island, separate from the Australian mainland — the discovery that gave Bass Strait its name. Dan Sprod tells the story of this landmark voyage of exploration, in which Flinders was accompanied by his famous ship's cat, Trim.
A history of the colonial years of Van Diemen's Land under Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell, 1817-1824.


