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The Main Road - Historical journey from Launceston to Hobart
Added: Aug 4, 2026
A small book documenting the historical journey along the Midland Highway between Launceston and Hobart - including the experience of Anthony Trollope travelling by coach from Launceston to Hobart via Campbell Town on what has become known as the the Heritage Highway.
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When We Rode the Rails by Patsy Adam-Smith |HCDJ 1992|
Added: Aug 4, 2026
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.
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OUT of PRINT
A selection of Tasmanian books that are no longer in print.
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Penelope Goes West
Tim Bowden tells of his road trip from Sydney to Margaret River and back.
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People, Sheep and Nature Conservation - the Tasmanian Experience
In an unusual combination of history, geography, social science, ecological science and policy analysis, this entertaining and well-illustrated book uses the vivid words of farmers, historical sources and contemporary research to provide some insight into issues arising from interactions between people, sheep and nature in the run country of Tasmania.
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Peppermint Bay
A history of the Woodbridge area, on the Channel in southern Tasmania.
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Perfection in a Small Sphere
A history of St Vincent's Hospital in Launceston, Tasmania from 1944 to 1997 and beyond. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Permaculture One
The classic permaculture handbook setting out a perennial agriculture for human settlements.
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Permaculture Two
One of the classics of permaculture by Tasmanian Bill Mollison - a practical design in permanent agriculture for town and country.
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Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land - P.E. de Strzelecki | First Edition, London 1845
P.E. de Strzelecki, a Polish-born explorer and geologist, spent 1839–1843 surveying large parts of New South Wales, Gippsland and Van Diemen's Land on foot, during which he identified and named Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest peak. This book compiles the results of that survey — mineral assays, soil analyses and geological mapping — accompanied by a fold-out geological map, sections and diagrams, and figures of organic remains.
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Pictorial Portrayal of Tasmania's Past – From Beattie's Studio | Basil Rait | 1982 [USED – HCDJ – Good]
A collection of historical photographs from the Beattie Studio in Hobart — J.W. Beattie's archive of Tasmania's past, selected and presented by Basil Rait. J.W. Beattie was Tasmania's most significant colonial-era photographer, whose studio documented the island's landscape, communities, industries and people across the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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