OUT of PRINT

A small illustrated history booklet published to mark the centenary of Lyell mining at Miners Siding, Queenstown, in 1983 — a century on from the 1883 discovery of gold at the Iron Blow, the find that launched mining in the district and eventually led to the formation of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in 1893.

The Cruise of the Freak and the missionary voyages in Bass Strait of Canon Marcus Brownrigg 1872-1885, telling of the lives of Tasmanian Aboriginal people on the Bass Strait islands.

Patsy Adam Smith's account of the mutton-birding culture of the Furneaux Islands — the group of Bass Strait islands of which Flinders Island is the largest — and the Aboriginal and Islander families whose lives have been shaped by the annual harvest of short-tailed shearwaters (muttonbirds) for generations.