Therese Mulford's QVMAG-published directory of Tasmanian picture framemakers working between 1830 and 1930, including a chronological listing, convict-made frames, and framemakers linked to known Tasmanian artists.
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.
Written by Dr Eric Guiler, who spent decades researching the thylacine and led the last official search expeditions for surviving animals in Tasmania. This book traces the thylacine from fossil evidence and Aboriginal rock art through to the bounty hunting era, the last captive animals at Hobart Zoo, and the searches conducted after the species was declared extinct.
A collection of thylacine encounter stories compiled by Col Bailey. Bailey spent decades investigating thylacine sightings and reports across Tasmania, and was one of the best-known figures in the ongoing search for evidence that the species may have survived beyond its official extinction. Tiger Tales brings together accounts and stories collected from people who believe they have encountered a thylacine, alongside Bailey's own field experience and perspective.
Tasmania has a long and unusual cricketing story: the colony played in the first first-class cricket match in Australia, defeating Victoria by three wickets in 1851, and produced fine cricketers through the late 19th century, but was overlooked when the Sheffield Shield was established in 1892 and not admitted to that competition until 1977.
To the Chinese tin miners the Blue Tier in North East Tasmania was ‘Tin Mountain.’ This history of the Tin Mountain region, and the settlements of Poimena and Weldborough, focuses on the search for valuable metal by both Europeans and Chinese.
The Tasmanian journal of William Smith O'Brien, covering his years as a political exile in Van Diemen's Land from 1849 to 1853. Edited by Richard Davis and published in 1995 as a limited first edition of 500 numbered copies. O'Brien was one of the most prominent figures in the Young Ireland movement — a Protestant Irish nationalist and Member of the Westminster Parliament who led the failed 1848 rebellion against British rule.
The Union Steam Ship Company's official tourist guide to Tasmania, illustrated throughout with photographs by J.W. Beattie, and printed at The Mercury Office, Hobart, 1898.