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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 River Runs Free - exploring and defending Tasmania's wilderness by Geoff Law

Geoff Law first rafted the Franklin River on a whim, inexperienced, in a leaky raft, with a travelling companion he barely knew. That trip drew him into the campaign to stop the river being dammed — a struggle that brought down a federal government.


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The Road to Lower Crackpot - Tasmazia
The story of Brian Inder's struggle to make a life for himself in early post-war Australia and the building of the tourism attraction Tasmazia in the Tasmanian village of Lower Crackpot, told with great honesty and humour.

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The Road Winds On

The Road Winds On - the life struggle of one man, LG Irby, and his family to build a road by hand into his property, which ultimately led to the establishment of the township of Sisters Beach. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.


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The Rock which makes Tasmania - David Leaman | Signed 2002 SC |

The Rock Which Makes Tasmania (Tasmania's Curse) examines dolerite, the rock that caps much of the state's mountains and coastline, and its influence on Tasmanian landscape and geology.


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The Romance of the Huon River | Mrs Arthur H. Garnsey (Anne Stafford Bird) | c.1947 [USED – HCDJ]

A history and description of the Huon River district south of Hobart, written by Anne Stafford Bird under her married name Mrs Arthur H. Garnsey and published by Whitcombe & Tombs, undated but around 1947. The Huon district — with its apple orchards, timber industry, fishing communities and the settlements along the river from Huonville south to Geeveston and beyond — had a distinct and largely self-contained character through the first half of the 20th century, before roads and postwar development changed the valley.


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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
Tasmanian Royce Hart and Richmond footballer, tells of his experiences playing Aussie Rules.

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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
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]

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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