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The Main Road - Historical journey from Launceston to Hobart See details
The Main Road - Historical journey from Launceston to Hobart
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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| See details
Saint Joseph's Church, Hobart by Linda Monks |1959 8-page booklet|
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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| See details
When We Rode the Rails by Patsy Adam-Smith |HCDJ 1992|
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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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The Roof of Tasmania – A History of the Central Plateau | Tim Jetson | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
The Roof of Tasmania – A History of the Central Plateau | Tim Jetson | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Tim Jetson's history of Tasmania's Central Plateau — the high tableland at the heart of the island, bounded by the Western Tiers to the east and the wilderness to the west, and encompassing the lake country around Great Lake, Arthurs Lake, Lake Echo and the surrounding highland waters.

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The Royce Hart Story See details
The Royce Hart Story
Tasmanian Royce Hart and Richmond footballer, tells of his experiences playing Aussie Rules.
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The Sarah Island Conspiracies See details
The Sarah Island Conspiracies
An account of twelve voyages to Macquarie Harbour and Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania between 1822 and 1838.
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The Scott Letters - VDL & Scotland 1836-55 See details
The Scott Letters - VDL & Scotland 1836-55
This book contains letters written in the early 1800s by James and George Scott, surveyors and early Tasmanian explorers, to their brother Thomas when he returned from Van Diemen's Land to live in Scotland.
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The Second Fleet – Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790 | Michael Flynn | 1993 | Numbered 937/1250 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print] See details
The Second Fleet – Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790 | Michael Flynn | 1993 | Numbered 937/1250 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

Michael Flynn's comprehensive history of the Second Fleet — the convoy of six ships that transported convicts to New South Wales in 1790, carrying what became known as one of the most brutal and deadly voyages in the history of convict transportation to Australia. The Second Fleet was operated by private contractors rather than the Royal Navy, and the conditions aboard were catastrophic.

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The Set of the Sails – The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman | Alan Villiers | 1997 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print] See details
The Set of the Sails – The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman | Alan Villiers | 1997 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

Alan Villiers' own account of his early years as a working seaman aboard the last commercial square-rigged sailing ships rounding Cape Horn, published in 1997. Villiers spent time in Tasmania during the formative period of his career — working as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury between voyages, and sailing from Hobart as a reporter with a Norwegian Antarctic whaling fleet.

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The Shot Tower and its Builder See details
The Shot Tower and its Builder
The Shot Tower and its builder, Joseph Moir, Hobart 1870 - being a description and history of the only circular stone shot tower in the southern hemisphere.
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The Silence Calling – Australians in Antarctica 1947–1997 | Tim Bowden | 1997 [USED – HCDJ] See details
The Silence Calling – Australians in Antarctica 1947–1997 | Tim Bowden | 1997 [USED – HCDJ]

The official jubilee history of ANARE — the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions — covering fifty years of Australian involvement in Antarctica from 1947 to 1997. Written by Tim Bowden and published to mark the 50th anniversary of Australia's Antarctic program.

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The Sooterkin | Tom Gilling | 1999 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
The Sooterkin | Tom Gilling | 1999 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Set in early 19th century Hobart Town, The Sooterkin is a darkly comic novel about a convict woman who gives birth to a creature that may or may not be human — a being the colonists cannot categorise and don't know what to do with. Tom Gilling uses the premise to examine colonial society's obsessions with classification, propriety and the fear of the strange in Van Diemen's Land.

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The South East See details
The South East
A Tasmanian history booklet compiled for adult education classes, and including Clarence, Richmond, Sorell, Tasman Peninsula, and shipping history.
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