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How to Play Bridge - Part 2: Kev Bailey's satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster | 1977 [USED – SC] See details
How to Play Bridge - Part 2: Kev Bailey's satirical cartoons on the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster | 1977 [USED – SC]
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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.

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The History of the Early Water Supply of Hobart - the first 100 years 1804-1904 See details
The History of the Early Water Supply of Hobart - the first 100 years 1804-1904
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The History of the Early Water Supply of Hobart traces the engineering story of the city's water from 1804 to 1904.

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Locomotives of the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy - Tasmania's preserved steam & diesel locomotives | 1991 [USED – SC] See details
Locomotives of the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy - Tasmania's preserved steam & diesel locomotives | 1991 [USED – SC]
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An illustrated history of the locomotives held in the Tasmanian Transport Museum, Glenorchy, at the time of publication in 1991.

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Hydro Construction Villages Volume One – Waddamana, Shannon and Tarraleah | Sarah Rackham | 1981 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume One – Waddamana, Shannon and Tarraleah | Sarah Rackham | 1981 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The first volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission to house workers and their families during the great dam-building era in Tasmania's Central Highlands. Waddamana was the site of the HEC's first major power station, built in 1916 — now a museum. Shannon and Tarraleah were later construction camps and villages built to support the push into the Central Plateau in the 1930s.

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Hydro Construction Villages Volume Three – Poatina, Gowrie Park and Strathgordon | Sarah Rackham | 1983 [USED – SC – Very Good] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume Three – Poatina, Gowrie Park and Strathgordon | Sarah Rackham | 1983 [USED – SC – Very Good]

The third and final volume in Sarah Rackham's series documenting the construction villages of the Hydro-Electric Commission — covering three of the most distinctive HEC settlements in Tasmania - Poatina above Longford, Gowrie Park near Quamby Bluff, and Strathgordon (construction village for the Gordon Dam and at the centre of the Lake Pedder flooding and later the Franklin Dam campaign).

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Hydro Construction Villages Volume Two – Butlers Gorge, Bronte Park, Trevallyn and Wayatinah | Sarah Rackham | 1982 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume Two – Butlers Gorge, Bronte Park, Trevallyn and Wayatinah | Sarah Rackham | 1982 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The second volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission during Tasmania's great dam-building era. Volume Two covers four distinct HEC villages — Butlers Gorge, near Lake King William in the upper Derwent catchment; Bronte Park, on the Central Plateau near Bronte Lagoon; Trevallyn, the hydro suburb built on the hills above Launceston to house workers for the Trevallyn Power Station; and Wayatinah, a construction village in the southern Central Plateau.

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I Excel! See details
I Excel!
The Life and times of Sir Henry Jones, of the IXL jam factory in Hobart, Tasmania.
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I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield See details
I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield
I Had A Quid to Get - a book recalling the days around osmiridium mining at Adamsfield 1925 and other Tasmanian stories.
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Ian Pearce Pianoman See details
Ian Pearce Pianoman
An account of the life and times of Tasmania's gentleman of jazz, Ian Pearce.
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Identities and History of Tasmania's High Country | Ned Terry | 2005 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Identities and History of Tasmania's High Country | Ned Terry | 2005 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Ned Terry's collection of recollections from people who lived and worked in Tasmania's Central Highlands — the cattlemen, snarers, drovers, hydro workers and families who made their living in the high country around Great Lake, the Mersey Valley, the Forth Valley and the surrounding plateau.

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Ill-starred Captains - Flinders & Baudin See details
Ill-starred Captains - Flinders & Baudin
A book about the South Pacific maritime expeditions of Matthew Flinders for Britain, and Nicolas Baudin for France, at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Illumination See details
Illumination
A book from the Newcastle Art Gallery and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery travelling exhibition showcasing the art of Philip Wolfhagen.
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Impression Bay - convict probation station to civil quarantine station: fever ship Persian, 1857 | Richard Lord | 1992 [USED – SC] See details
Impression Bay - convict probation station to civil quarantine station: fever ship Persian, 1857 | Richard Lord | 1992 [USED – SC]

Impression Bay, on the Tasman Peninsula, began as a convict probation station before being repurposed as a civil quarantine station. In 1857, the immigrant ship Persian arrived carrying typhus fever, and this book tells the story of that voyage and the quarantine that followed at Impression Bay — drawing on the resulting Parliamentary Enquiry into the "Fever Immigrant Ship Persian," medical notes on the typhus outbreak, and accounts of the final phase of the immigrants' quarantine and the deaths that occurred there.

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