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Low Head to Launceston - earliest reports of Port Dalrymple and the Tamar
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Presents the earliest surviving written accounts of the exploration and founding of Port Dalrymple and the Tamar, at the mouth of which the site of modern Launceston developed. On the evening of 3 November 1798, Matthew Flinders and George Bass entered Port Dalrymple aboard the colonial sloop Norfolk, becoming the first Europeans to survey the harbour.


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Tasmania Now & Again by R.W.Baker |HCDJ 1980|
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Robert Wilfred "Bob" Baker (1917–1985) was a Tasmanian lawyer, legal scholar and politician. Born in Adelaide, his family moved to Tasmania in 1919; his father was involved in the founding of the Risdon zinc works.


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A selection of Tasmanian books that are no longer in print.

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Fight the Fiery Fiend - Colonial Fire Fighting 1803-1883
A history of how the early European settlers in Van Diemen's Land fought fires, including those on ships in the River Derwent. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Port Dalrymple Shipping from 1963 to 1972
A book of colour photographs recording the ships that sailed into Port Dalrymple in northern Tasmania in the last decade prior to the advent of mass containerisation and the decline of the vast numbers of seafarers required to man the new type of ships. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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100 Clicks

The Tasmanian Motorcycle Club was formed in Launceston in 1905 as the Tasmanian Automobile Club, and has run continuously ever since. Author Ken Young, a club life member and its history officer, researched the club's full history for this book, and believes it to be the third-oldest such club in the world.


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100 Hobart Houses 1901-2000 - hardcover, used
Every house has a story; 100 Hobart Houses tells a hundred stories, one for each year of the 20th century.

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100 Years - A centenary history of the Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania 1893-1993

Richard Davis's centenary history of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania, founded in 1893. Softcover, 98 pages, illustrated, used.


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100 Years of Western Tasmanian Mining

100 Years of Western Tasmanian Mining traces a century of mining on the west coast — from the district's earliest mineral discoveries, including tin at Mount Bischoff in 1871, silver-lead around Zeehan and Dundas in 1882, and the Mount Lyell copper field in 1883, through to the mining industry of the mid-1970s.


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1015 Copenhagen K (Danish Royal Family Biography) - Used

Written by European royal correspondent Trine Villemann, this publication provides a contemporary journalistic account of the modern Danish Royal House. The text chronicles the court's history leading up to the marriage of Tasmanian-born Mary Donaldson to Crown Prince Frederik, offering an independent perspective on the transition from a traditional constitutional monarchy into a modern royal family.


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366 Days of Tasmania Volume 1 - used

A Tasmanian event of note for every day of the year.


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A Background to the History of Nursing in Tasmania
A history of the role of nurses in the development of health and medical services in Tasmania, and the practical insights they offer to solving health issues.

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A Brief Dictionary of Tasmanian Artists
A Brief Dictionary of Tasmanian Artists, published in 1975 by qualified restorers of fine art.

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