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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A brief account of Westella - Residential Family Club, 181 Elizabeth Street, Hobart - signed with a gift inscription from the author inside the front cover.
Patsy Adam-Smith's history of Australia's railway age, drawing on the stories, memories and folklore of the men and women who worked the railways across the country.
Sarah Lloyd's exploration of myxomycetes — the slime moulds — published by the author in 2015. Myxomycetes are among the most extraordinary organisms in the natural world: neither fungi, nor plants, nor animals. They exist as single-celled amoebae, then aggregate into a flowing mass that moves as a single organism in search of food, before forming fruiting bodies to spread spores.
![Where the Slime Mould Creeps – The Fascinating World of Myxomycetes | Sarah Lloyd | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/where-the-slime-mould-ORMe8D.png "Where the Slime Mould Creeps – The Fascinating World of Myxomycetes | Sarah Lloyd | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good]")