![Snakes of Tasmania | Simon Fearn | QVMAG Natural History Series | 2015 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/snakes-of-tasmania-gErPz5.png "Snakes of Tasmania | Simon Fearn | QVMAG Natural History Series | 2015 [NEW – SC]")
A concise guide to Tasmania's three snake species — the Tiger Snake, Lowland Copperhead and White-lipped Snake — all venomous to varying degrees. Written by Simon Fearn and published by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) as part of their Natural History Series.
![Snarers and Cattlemen of the Mersey High Country – The Lees of Lees' Paddocks | Simon Cubit | [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/snarers-and-cattlemen-gzOdAR.png "Snarers and Cattlemen of the Mersey High Country – The Lees of Lees' Paddocks | Simon Cubit | [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
Simon Cubit's history of the Lee family and their work as snarers and cattlemen in the Mersey High Country — the remote high country of Tasmania's Central Plateau above the Mersey Valley, centred on Lees' Paddocks near the headwaters of the Mersey River. The Lee family spent generations working this remote country — running cattle on the high plateau in summer, snaring possums through the colder months, and living a way of life that has since largely disappeared.
![Some Common Spiders of Tasmania - Vernon V Hickman OBE, Australia's leading arachnologist | 1967 [USED – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/some-common-spiders-of-tasmania-WI4Pr4.png "Some Common Spiders of Tasmania - Vernon V Hickman OBE, Australia's leading arachnologist | 1967 [USED – SC]")
VVHickman OBE was Professor of Biology at the University of Tasmania 1943-1959, and became recognised as Australia's leading arachnologist. He personally described numerous Tasmanian spider species, including the Tasmanian funnel-web spider, and was honoured with an entire genus and family named after him — Hickmania and Hickmaniidae, the Tasmanian cave spider. This guide introduces Tasmania's common spiders through his own photographs and detailed drawings.
Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, operated as a convict penal settlement from 1825 to 1832 — established to ease overcrowding at Hobart — before closing due to frequent escapes and reopening as a probation station from 1842 to 1850. Darlington, at the island's north, is today regarded as the most intact surviving example of a convict probation station in Australia, and is UNESCO World Heritage-listed as part of the Australian Convict Sites.
![Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - facsimile of Louisa Anne Meredith's 1860 & 1891 volumes | 2015 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/xctmpPjFSMS.png "Some of My Bush Friends in Tasmania - facsimile of Louisa Anne Meredith's 1860 & 1891 volumes | 2015 [NEW – SC]")
A facsimile edition of Louisa Anne Meredith's Bush Friends of Tasmania, originally published in 1860, with the second volume following some 31 years later. Regarded as one of colonial Australia's foremost women writers and artists, Meredith — author, poet, artist and illustrator — provides her own observations and illustrations of the flora she encountered in her adopted home of Tasmania.
