Roy Dean's personal reminiscences of the Shannon Rise — one of the most celebrated fly fishing events of the 20th century, and a phenomenon that made Tasmania's Central Plateau famous among serious trout anglers worldwide. The Shannon Rise occurred on summer evenings on the Shannon River near Great Lake in Tasmania's Central Highlands, when vast numbers of trout would rise simultaneously to take the evening hatch — creating fishing conditions that veteran anglers described as unlike anything found anywhere else in the world.
A comprehensive account of the development of the metal mining industry in Tasmania from the beginnings of British settlement in Van Diemen's Land in 1804 to the outbreak of the First World War, with a focus on how the government helped shape the mining industry.
A history of the series of revivals in the 1820s and 1830s among the Methodists in Van Diemen's Land, held in Launceston and Hobart and amongst the earliest Christian revivals in Australia.
This is a 1966 Platypus Publications facsimile, numbered 126 of 500, of Michael Howe, the Last and Worst of the Bush Rangers of Van Diemen's Land, originally printed by Andrew Bent in Hobart Town in December 1818 and attributed to Thomas Wells.
The story of Mick Burles — a battling Launceston horse trainer — and The Cleaner, the gelding he began working with at Launceston's Mowbray racecourse in February 2011. What followed was one of Australian racing's better underdog stories.

