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.
Hobart buildings constructed by the Seabrook family from the 1830s.
The story of the shipwrights of Port Cygnet, Tasmania, and their boats 1863-1997.
James Fenton emigrated from Ireland with his family in 1834, and from 1840 pioneered farming land on Tasmania's Forth River, clearing heavy forest by hand. After visiting the Yarra during Victoria's 1850s gold rush, he saw a market for timber and turned to lumbering on the Forth before retiring from farming in 1879.
Tales from the Tasmanian back blocks.
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The second volume of Nic Haygarth's collection of stories from the Tasmanian bush — 300 pages of tales drawn from the back blocks of the island, covering the people, places and ways of life that define rural and remote Tasmania. Haygarth has spent years researching and writing about Tasmanian bush history, and this second volume follows the same approach as the first — oral histories, anecdotes, characters and incidents from across the state's rural and wilderness fringes.
This Tasmanian transport history book recounts a period from around 1850 to 1960 when men battled almost overwhelming odds to carve a living out of an unforgiving land.
Bushfire Heartbreak depicts the horror and threat to life of bushfires.
