![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]")
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
![The Wreck of the Neva – The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard | Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd | 2024 [NEW – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/wreck-of-the-neva-JwyOcU.png "The Wreck of the Neva – The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Irish Women Aboard | Cal McCarthy & Kevin Todd | 2024 [NEW – HCDJ]")
On 8 January 1835 the Neva sailed from Cork carrying 241 people — mostly Irish women convicts and the wives and children of convicts already transported, travelling to join their families in New South Wales. On 13 May 1835 the ship struck a reef just north of King Island in Bass Strait and sank. Of the 241 aboard, 224 drowned — one of the worst convict ship disasters in Australian history.
A history of the EZ zinc works at Risdon, on the edge of Hobart, from 1916 to 1991. Tasmanian industrial history.
![Theodore Thomson Flynn – Not Just Errol's Father | Tony & Vicki Harrison | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/theodore-thomson-flynn-not-just-errols-father-buGuE7.png "Theodore Thomson Flynn – Not Just Errol's Father | Tony & Vicki Harrison | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
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.
This 2-volume Folio Society set compiles Wilfred Thesiger’s definitive travel classics, Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs. Together they provide a profound account of his journeys through the Empty Quarter of Arabia and his years living among the indigenous peoples of the Iraqi marshes.
![They Found A Cave - Tasmanian children's classic by Nan Chauncy [Ages 9-12]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/they-found-a-cave-bPjpav.png "They Found A Cave - Tasmanian children's classic by Nan Chauncy [Ages 9-12]")
In Nan Chauncy's classic Tasmanian children's novel, four English orphans - Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy - migrate to Tasmania, to the care of their Aunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart. Their arrival is greeted with enthusiasm by young farm boy Tas, and weeks of exploration and good times follow before Aunt Jandie goes to hospital, leaving the children in the care of Ma and Pa Pinner, her foreman and housekeeper.
