Lou Rae's history of the Abt Railway — the rack-and-pinion railway that ran between Queenstown and Strahan on Tasmania's west coast, one of the most spectacular and technically remarkable railways ever built in Australia. The Abt system uses a toothed rack rail in the centre of the track, engaged by a pinion gear on the locomotive, allowing trains to climb and descend grades that would be impossible for conventional adhesion railways.
Charles "Chas from Tas" Blundell's memoir of five decades at sea, from his Tasmanian schooldays to ocean races on teams from six countries, written with Juliet Prentice. Signed by the author. Softcover, 2015, 227 pages.
This collection of recipes from the phenomenally popular cooking school, The Agrarian Kitchen in Tasmania's New Norfolk, celebrates the simple pleasures of cooking and eating in tune with the seasons, and the rhythm of a life lived close to the earth.
This collection of recipes from the phenomenally popular cooking school, The Agrarian Kitchen in Tasmania's New Norfolk, celebrates the simple pleasures of cooking and eating in tune with the seasons, and the rhythm of a life lived close to the earth.
Dennis Hodgkinson's history of the Albert Hall in Launceston — the city's principal concert and civic hall, built in 1891 and documented here across its first ninety years, published to coincide with its 1980 re-launch after restoration works. The Albert Hall has recently been at the centre of Launceston public debate following its latest major renovation — a project that attracted significant attention for its cost and the questions it raised about the hall's utilisation and future.
Melding personal, family and colonial history, Wood's evocative and lyrical prose explores the past and place, searching and belonging, love, loss and grief.
A diocesan history to mark the sesquicentenary of the Anglican Church in Tasmania in 1992, by Geoffrey Stephens. Structured around the tenures of each of Tasmania's bishops — Nixon, Bromby, Sandford, Montgomery, Mercer, Stephen, Hay, Cranswick, Davies, Cornish and Newell — with a chronological, illustrated list of churches built under each, an alphabetical list of clergy, and a full index.
Once in a while, everyone needs to be heard. Freycinet Barnes has built herself the perfect existence in Hobart, Tasmania and then she finds herself in the West Moonah Women's Choir.
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