Brian and David Cadle's practical guide to trout fishing in Tasmania — written by two experienced Tasmanian anglers and aimed specifically at those fishing Tasmanian waters rather than a general Australian audience.
The story of more than one hundred and twenty mostly Tasmanian men who signed up with Norwegian whaling ships in the 1920's for "the adventure of their lifetime" hunting the great mammals in Antarctic waters.
The book accompanying a TMAG exhibition in which 20 Palawa artists and cultural practiitioners responded to coming face to face with some of their Tasmanian aboriginal cultures' treasures for the first time.
The story of Tazzie — a Tasmanian native hen who can't quite get her running right, even though running is what native hens do best. The Tasmanian native hen (Tribonyx mortierii) is a flightless bird found only in Tasmania — endemic to the island and one of its most distinctive wildlife characters.
Michael Ludeke writes of 10 events that were key to shaping Tasmania's history including: Reconciliation - 1803 settlement - 1901 Federation - development of Hydro Electricity - 1967 bushfires - Australia's first casino - Tasman Bridge disaster 1975 - Port Arthur massacre 1996 - the Bacon era, Premier Jim Bacon 1998-2004 - Beaconsfield mine collapse and rescue.
The true story of ten convicts who escaped from Sarah Island — the Macquarie Harbour penal station on Tasmania's remote west coast, regarded as the most brutal of Van Diemen's Land's convict establishments — by stealing the brig they had helped to build, and sailing it across the Pacific Ocean to Chile without a map or a chronometer. The ringleader was Jimmy Porter, a resourceful and audacious schemer whose account of the escape became one of the most remarkable documents of the convict era.