OUT of PRINT

Bern Cuthbertson's signed memoir of seventy years at sea in Tasmania - skippering vessels including the Weeruna, the schooner Derwent Hunter and the historic Admiral, and working the state's fishing grounds for trevalla and blue-eye.

Simon Cubit's history of the Lee family and their work as snarers and cattlemen in the Mersey High Country — the remote high country of Tasmania's Central Plateau above the Mersey Valley, centred on Lees' Paddocks near the headwaters of the Mersey River. The Lee family spent generations working this remote country — running cattle on the high plateau in summer, snaring possums through the colder months, and living a way of life that has since largely disappeared.

Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, operated as a convict penal settlement from 1825 to 1832 — established to ease overcrowding at Hobart — before closing due to frequent escapes and reopening as a probation station from 1842 to 1850. Darlington, at the island's north, is today regarded as the most intact surviving example of a convict probation station in Australia, and is UNESCO World Heritage-listed as part of the Australian Convict Sites.

Nanette Sharman's sequel history of Sulphur Creek — the small coastal community on Tasmania's north-west coast between Burnie and Penguin, known historically as Lingtown.