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.
Sue Backhouse's reference work profiles Tasmanian painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers active between 1900 and 1985, published by Pandani Press in 1988.
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 Woodpecker Papers contains nature tales of Tasmania in the late 1800s from Rev Henry Dresser Atkinson, originally published in the Church Messenger and the Church News before 1900, and after that in the Tasmanian News.
Max Angus's tribute to Olegas Truchanas — the Lithuanian-born Tasmanian wilderness photographer, canoeist and environmental activist whose life and work directly shaped the course of Tasmanian conservation history. Truchanas arrived in Tasmania as a refugee after WWII and found in the island's wild places a landscape that moved him profoundly. He became an extraordinary wilderness photographer and one of the most skilled canoeists in Australia, making solo journeys through country that had defeated most previous expeditions
At its mining height Zeehan was the third largest town in Tasmania; Zeehan's railway yards handled the largest tonnages in the state, thus providing an economic stimulus to the North-West Coast particularly Burnie.
A biography of Professor Theodore Thomson Flynn — zoologist, Royal Commissioner, academic and father of Errol. Theo Flynn arrived in Hobart to take up a professorship at the University of Tasmania at the age of 28, where he built a reputation as a leading researcher in marsupial biology.
In 1839, Jane, Lady Franklin — wife of Tasmania's Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin — did something almost no colonial woman of her time did: she set out from Hobart to Port Phillip, then overland from Melbourne to Sydney, travelling through country few Europeans had crossed.
![The World of Olegas Truchanas | Max Angus | 1975 | Fifth Edition [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/world-of-olegas-fifthedition-YI0mD6.png "The World of Olegas Truchanas | Max Angus | 1975 | Fifth Edition [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
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