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Low Head to Launceston - earliest reports of Port Dalrymple and the Tamar
Added: Aug 12, 2026
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|
Added: Aug 12, 2026
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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Latitude Forty - reminiscences of Flinders Island
Added: Aug 10, 2026
Jim Davie's reminiscences of life on Flinders Island — the largest of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait, sitting on the 40th parallel south, within the "Roaring Forties" latitude band that gives this book its title.
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OUT of PRINT
A selection of Tasmanian books that are no longer in print.
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Wrecks on King Island - Bass Strait shipwreck history |Jack Loney|
King Island, in Bass Strait, has been the site of over 60 shipwrecks and more than 800 lives lost, including the Cataraqui (1845, Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, over 400 dead), the convict ship Neva (1835, 218 lost) and the British Admiral (79 lost).
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Wychwood – One of Tasmania's Most Celebrated Gardens | Karen Hall & Peter Cooper | 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Good]
A photographic record of Wychwood — the garden created by Karen Hall and Peter Cooper near Moles Creek in northern Tasmania. Wychwood was developed over many years from farmland into an extensive garden that became one of the most visited private gardens in Tasmania — known for its use of structure, stone, water and a wide range of plants suited to the cool Tasmanian climate.
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Wynyard - a pictorial history
A history of Wynyard on the north-west coast of Tasmania in black and white photographs, compiled by the Wynyard Historical Society.
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You Can't Hang Me For It
Life of James Mitchell (1838-1931) career criminal - the life of a Tasmanian man born in the early convict days of the Colony.
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You Will Never Make the Grade
Humorous tales of a Tasmanian cop's experiences whilst policing the island State. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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