Building Stories Tasmania is an illustrated tour of Tasmania's most distinctive buildings - working waterfronts, former hydro sites, pubs, bookshops, hotels, theatres and small-town main streets - told through the people who built, worked and lived in them: convicts, clergy, brewers, booksellers and activists.
Sue Backhouse's reference work profiles Tasmanian painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers active between 1900 and 1985, published by Pandani Press in 1988.
Jorgen Jorgenson (1780–1841) was a Danish-born adventurer who briefly ruled Iceland as a self-appointed administrator in 1809, earning him the nickname 'the Convict King'. Transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1826, he worked there as an explorer, constable — including in parties sent against Tasmanian Aboriginal people — and newspaper editor, before receiving a full pardon in 1835.
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David Scholes's reflective account of a lifetime's fly-fishing — looking back over many years on the waters, the experiences and the conclusions he has drawn from a long career as Tasmania's most celebrated fishing writer.
Trout in North-Western Tasmania is a historical recording of the growth of the coast from 1826-1977 concentrating on the spread and development of the trout fishery, produced by the North Western Fisheries Association to commemorate 50 years of service to angling.
Two Rivers - A Reflective Journey, is a book capturing an arts-based student project learning about Tasmanian Aboriginal culture. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
An English translation of Jules Dumont d'Urville's accounts of his two great South Seas voyages — the Astrolabe voyage of 1826–1829 and the Zélée voyage of 1837–1840 — published by Melbourne University Press in 1987 in two volumes with slipcase. D'Urville was one of the most significant French naval explorers of the 19th century.
An oral history of the Franklin River campaign, told through interviews with the people who took part in the blockade and the broader fight to stop the damming of the Franklin River. Where Wild Rivers captured the campaign through Peter Dombrovskis's photographs and Bob Brown's words, UpRiver tells the story from a different angle — the voices of the ordinary people who travelled to South West Tasmania, joined the blockade, and were arrested for it.
![Trout Days – Some Reflections and Conclusions After Many Years of Fly-Fishing | David Scholes | 1986 [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/trout-days-AFlM3b.png "Trout Days – Some Reflections and Conclusions After Many Years of Fly-Fishing | David Scholes | 1986 [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
![Two Voyages to the South Seas – Astrolabe 1826–1829 & Zélée 1837–1840 | Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1987 | Signed by Translator [USED – HCDJ – Slipcase – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/dumon-durville-R0ivpl.png "Two Voyages to the South Seas – Astrolabe 1826–1829 & Zélée 1837–1840 | Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1987 | Signed by Translator [USED – HCDJ – Slipcase – Very Good]")
![UpRiver – Untold Stories of the Franklin River Activists | Alice Hungerford | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/upriver-mGUHVw.png "UpRiver – Untold Stories of the Franklin River Activists | Alice Hungerford | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
