![Adamsfield – The Town That Lived and Died | Kathleen, Ralph & Timothy Gowlland | 1973 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/adamsfield-worn-NAmZQr.png "Adamsfield – The Town That Lived and Died | Kathleen, Ralph & Timothy Gowlland | 1973 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
A history of Adamsfield — the remote mining township that grew up in the Tasmanian wilderness around the osmiridium fields during the 1920s and 1930s, and was subsequently abandoned. Osmiridium is a naturally occurring alloy of osmium and iridium — two rare platinum-group metals used in industrial applications including the tips of gold pen nibs.
![Adventures at Powranna - More Tasmanian Tales, illustrated by the author, signed | Nairda Lyne | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Ages 5-9]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/adventures-at-powranna-NSSL3b.png "Adventures at Powranna - More Tasmanian Tales, illustrated by the author, signed | Nairda Lyne | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Ages 5-9]")
Tasmanian children's stories set around Powranna, a small locality in Tasmania's Northern Midlands, near Longford. Illustrated throughout with 76 decorations drawn by the author herself, and cited in Marcie Muir's standard bibliography of Australian children's books.
Risby Brothers Timber Merchants was founded in Hobart in 1844 by Joseph Risby, and remained in family hands until it closed in the early 1990s — one of Tasmania's longest-running family-owned businesses. The company expanded across the state over the following century.
![Alan Villiers – Voyager of the Winds | Kate Lance | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/alan-villiers-voyager-on-the-winds-LS6vAc.png "Alan Villiers – Voyager of the Winds | Kate Lance | 2009 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]")
A biography of Alan Villiers, one of the last great sailing ship seamen and one of the most significant maritime writers of the 20th century. Written by Kate Lance and published in 2009. Villiers was based in Tasmania for a formative part of his career. He worked as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury, and it was from Hobart that he joined a Norwegian whaling fleet bound for Antarctica as a reporter.
The definitive biographical history of Australia's most infamous convict cannibal and bushranger, Alexander Pearce. A meticulously researched account of the brutal 1822 Sarah Island escapes by Dan Sprod, complete in its original Cat & Fiddle Press dust jacket.
