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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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Saint Joseph's Church, Hobart by Linda Monks |1959 8-page booklet|
Added: Aug 4, 2026

St Joseph's, on the corner of Harrington and Macquarie Streets, is the oldest surviving Catholic church in Hobart, Tasmania. Linda Monks's booklet records this history.


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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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Re-Birth of a Lady
A book about the successful reconstruction of the Lady Nelson, an old sailing vessel in Hobart, Tasmania to celebrate the Australian bicentennial. The Lady Nelson is used for sail training and leisure tours and is generally moored at Constitution Dock in Hobart.

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Reaching Out From Ben Lomond – Stories of Farmers and Their Farms Around Blessington, Evandale, Clarendon and Nile | Tony McCormack | 2019 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Out of Stock]

The third volume in Tony McCormack's "Reaching Out" series of local farming histories, covering the northern Tasmanian Midlands districts of Blessington, Evandale, Clarendon and Nile. McCormack continues his approach of combining individual farm and family histories with the broader story of agricultural settlement in this part of the Northern Midlands, drawing on interviews and records from the families who have worked this country.


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Reaching Out From Evandale | Tony McCormack | 2017 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Very Good]

Tony McCormack returns to the farms around Evandale to capture the stories of the properties and the families who earned their living working them — the second volume in the "Reaching Out" series, covering the districts of Clarendon, Nile, Deddington, Blessington, White Hills and Relbia.


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Recherche Bay - a short history
A short, illustrated social history of Recherche Bay, south of Hobart in Tasmania.

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Recollections from the Forest

75 years of forest service in Tasmania.


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Recollections of Life in Van Diemen's Land | William Gates (one of the Canadian Patriots) | George Mackaness (Ed.) | 1961 | Numbered 127/135 | Signed [USED – SC – Parts 1 & 2]

One of the most unusual primary sources in Van Diemen's Land history — the first-hand account of William Gates, an American from New York who was transported to Hobart as a political prisoner in 1840. Gates was one of the "Canadian Patriots" — a group of Americans and Canadians who invaded Upper Canada in 1838 in sympathy with the Canadian Rebellions of 1837, supporting those seeking independence from British rule.


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Recollections of North Bruny Island | F. Oliver Gray | 1978 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

F. Oliver Gray's personal recollections of life on the north end of Bruny Island — the smaller, more pastoral northern section of the island separated from South Bruny by The Neck. North Bruny has a distinct character from the southern wilderness — it is more like farming country, with the community of Dennes Point and the D'Entrecasteaux Channel defining its western shore.


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Rediscovering Recherche Bay
A history of Recherche Bay in South West Tasmania.

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Reflections on Tasmaniana | Phoebe Wilson | 1972 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Damaged Cover]

Poet and writer Phoebe Wilson's reflections on aspects of Tasmania she encountered and observed — a 1972 booklet covering Bicheno, Campbell Town, O'Brien's Store, Mervyn Houghton Wright, Ross, Table Cape, the Shell and Antique Museum, Lake Dulverton, Oatlands and Clyde Goldsmith.


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Revolutionary Imperialist - William Smith O'Brien
A book that traces William Smith O'Brien's domestic, political and nationalist life in Ireland, showing that, despite sympathy with British imperialism, he resorted to armed protest to win self-government for Ireland from Britain without a class or civil war. William Smith O'Brien became a political exile in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.

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