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A history of Adamsfield — the remote mining township that grew up in the Tasmanian wilderness around the osmiridium fields during the 1920s and 1930s, and was subsequently abandoned. Osmiridium is a naturally occurring alloy of osmium and iridium — two rare platinum-group metals used in industrial applications including the tips of gold pen nibs.

Risby Brothers Timber Merchants was founded in Hobart in 1844 by Joseph Risby, and remained in family hands until it closed in the early 1990s — one of Tasmania's longest-running family-owned businesses. The company expanded across the state over the following century.

The definitive biographical history of Australia's most infamous convict cannibal and bushranger, Alexander Pearce. A meticulously researched account of the brutal 1822 Sarah Island escapes by Dan Sprod, complete in its original Cat & Fiddle Press dust jacket.