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Building Stories Tasmania - Gossip, Ghosts & Good Times - Deb Huff |HC, new|
Added: Oct 31, 2026

Building Stories Tasmania is an illustrated tour of Tasmania's most distinctive buildings - working waterfronts, former hydro sites, pubs, bookshops, hotels, theatres and small-town main streets - told through the people who built, worked and lived in them: convicts, clergy, brewers, booksellers and activists.


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Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century 1900-1985: Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers and Photographers, Sue Backhouse |HCDJ Out of Print|
Added: Nov 2, 2026

Sue Backhouse's reference work profiles Tasmanian painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers active between 1900 and 1985, published by Pandani Press in 1988.


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Jorgenson - A Shred of Autobiography or the progress of a convict HCDJ
Added: Nov 2, 2026

Jorgen Jorgenson (1780–1841) was a Danish-born adventurer who briefly ruled Iceland as a self-appointed administrator in 1809, earning him the nickname 'the Convict King'. Transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1826, he worked there as an explorer, constable — including in parties sent against Tasmanian Aboriginal people — and newspaper editor, before receiving a full pardon in 1835.


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The Peaks of Lyell - softcover

The Peaks of Lyell was Geoffrey Blainey's first book, based on his University of Melbourne MA thesis and originally published in 1954. It tells the history of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and through it, of Queenstown and Tasmania's West Coast.


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The Penal Settlement of Macquarie Harbour - outline of history |Hans Julen|Signed|

This outline of the history of the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement covers its founding on Sarah Island in 1822 as a place of banishment for the colony's most difficult convicts, its eleven-year reputation as one of the harshest penal settlements in the Australian colonies, and notable escapes including those of Matthew Brady and Alexander Pearce.


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The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition

A comprehensive manual to fermenting foods to preserve them and enhance flavour.


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The Pirates of the Brig Cyprus: Convict Mutiny at Recherche Bay, Van Diemen's Land, 14 Aug 1829 - Clune & Stephensen HCDJ

The true story of the 1829 convict mutiny aboard the brig Cyprus - seized at Recherche Bay while bound for Macquarie Harbour, and sailed across the Pacific under convict command. By Frank Clune and P.R. Stephensen.


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The Power of Two
The David Foster story.

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The Presence of Arms – Tasmanian People in Military Service and Conflict Since European Settlement | Antony Nicholson & Stanley Cordwell | 2007 | Signed & Numbered 110/300 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A history of Tasmanian involvement in military service and conflict from European settlement of Van Diemen's Land through to modern times, written by Antony Nicholson and Stanley Cordwell and published in 2007. The book covers the full span of Tasmanian military history — from the colonial period and the Boer War through both World Wars and beyond — documenting the people, units and stories that connect Tasmania to Australia's broader military experience.


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The Pulp: The Rise and Fall of an Industry | Burnie Paper Mill History Tasmania 1936-2010 | Allan Jamieson

A history of the Burnie Paper Mill in north-west Tasmania, tracing the rise and fall of the pulp and paper industry from 1936 to 2010.


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The Quiet Land
Tasmanian wilderness photography by Peter Dombrovskis and text by Ellen Miller.

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The Rails Go Westward - Patsy Adam-Smith Australian railway history |HCDJ 1969|

A short history of Australia's railways by Patsy Adam-Smith, written partly with younger readers in mind. First edition, 1969.


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The Railton - Roland Branch Line - A History of Railways in the Municipality of Kentish - Leonard C Fisher and Barbara Wells

The Railton - Roland Branch Line traces the Kentish municipality railway built in 1913-14 and opened by Joseph Lyons, later Prime Minister of Australia.


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