A second book of satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster and its long aftermath, by Kev Bailey — staff political cartoonist for the Mercury. On the night of 5 January 1975, the bulk carrier Lake Illawarra struck Hobart's Tasman Bridge, collapsing several pylons into the Derwent River and killing 12 people. The disaster cut Hobart's eastern shore off from the city for years, reshaping the city's transport and politics.
Susan Barter's family history of the Winspears in Tasmania — tracing the family from 1783 through to 2001. The Winspear family history traces the line from their origins in 1783 through to the present day — covering the arrival of the family in Van Diemen's Land and the spread of descendants across Tasmania and elsewhere over subsequent generations.
Susan Barter's family history of the Winspears in Tasmania — tracing the family from 1783 through to 2001. The Winspear family history traces the line from their origins in 1783 through to the present day — covering the arrival of the family in Van Diemen's Land and the spread of descendants across Tasmania and elsewhere over subsequent generations.
Two of Harry O'May's histories of Tasmanian maritime life bound together in one volume — Wooden Hookers of Hobart Town and Whalers out of Van Diemen's Land. O'May was one of the most diligent historians of Hobart's seafaring past — he documented the ships, the masters, the trades and the men of the Derwent and the southern seas in a series of books published from the 1940s to the 1960s.