Ringarooma, in Tasmania's North-East, began as "Krushka Town," a private township founded in 1882 by the Krushka brothers, whose enterprise grew out of the region's tin mining boom of the 1870s. The town was renamed Ringarooma in 1888. Glenn Carins traces the history and pioneering families of the district, including Alberton, Krushka Town, Pinega, Talawa/Maurice and Trenah.
A humorous look at Tasmanian places names... Tasmania is blessed with a plethora of biblical place names, together with many outrageous, unsavoury, quirky and crazy names.
A combination of true and tall tales from Tasmania's rich pool of history and legend, illustrated throughout by Colin Abel — covering colourful and sometimes dark figures and episodes from the state's past, alongside lighter curiosities of Tasmanian life and history.
Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.
A book about Australian wildlife road kill - how it happens, how it decomposes, and how to cook it, from shabu shabu bandicoot to parma wallaby, done with a touch of humour.
Ireland, early 1800s. Maurice O'Dwyer, a young Irishman is exiled to the convict-filled island of Van Diemen's Land, Australia with his young simpleton brother Padraig.
Robbins Island, off Tasmania's north-west coast in Bass Strait, is the state's seventh largest island and its largest privately owned one. Pauline Buckby, also author of Around Circular Head and The Legends of Hunter Island (both also in our stock), tells the island's history here.
