Eva Meidl's account of the voyage of the Hannah — the ship that sailed from Liverpool in November 1850 carrying German and British free settlers to Van Diemen's Land, arriving in Launceston in March 1851. Among the passengers on the Hannah was Ludwig Becker — German artist, naturalist and explorer.
An historical study of the shipwreck of the convict transport ship George the Third on entering the D'Entrecasteaux Channel after a 4 month voyage from England, with great loss of life.
A history of how the early European settlers in Van Diemen's Land fought fires, including those on ships in the River Derwent. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
Richard Flanagan's 2017 novel — his first after The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. A young writer is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a charismatic and morally bankrupt con man in a matter of weeks. As the narrator is pulled deeper into his subject's world, the boundaries between the two men and between truth and fiction begin to dissolve.
The story of Ordinary Seaman Edward "Teddy" Sheean — a Tasmanian from Latrobe who, on 1 December 1942, strapped himself to an anti-aircraft gun on the sinking HMAS Armidale and continued firing at Japanese aircraft to protect his shipmates in the water, even as the ship went down beneath him. He was 18 years old. He did not survive.
For most of her career, Merle Oberon — one of Hollywood's leading actresses of the 1930s and 1940s, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Dark Angel (1935) and starring opposite Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939) — claimed to have been born in Hobart, Tasmania, to white British parents, and that her birth records had been destroyed in a fire.
The author says... Motherhood has not been an easy journey for me. After moving to the farm in 2019 with a 6-month-old in tow, I soon felt the pang of isolation. I started the Motherland Australia podcast to fill a gaping hole I felt out here... connection.
A book of colour photographs recording the ships that sailed into Port Dalrymple in northern Tasmania in the last decade prior to the advent of mass containerisation and the decline of the vast numbers of seafarers required to man the new type of ships. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
This is the cookbook from Alistair Wise and Teena Kearney-Wise of Sweet Envy, an old-fashioned sweets parlour, cake shop and bakehouse all in one in North Hobart, Tasmania.