At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in Tasmania and its largest private landowner.
The story of Brian Inder's struggle to make a life for himself in early post-war Australia and the building of the tourism attraction Tasmazia in the Tasmanian village of Lower Crackpot, told with great honesty and humour.
The Road Winds On - the life struggle of one man, LG Irby, and his family to build a road by hand into his property, which ultimately led to the establishment of the township of Sisters Beach. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
A history and description of the Huon River district south of Hobart, written by Anne Stafford Bird under her married name Mrs Arthur H. Garnsey and published by Whitcombe & Tombs, undated but around 1947. The Huon district — with its apple orchards, timber industry, fishing communities and the settlements along the river from Huonville south to Geeveston and beyond — had a distinct and largely self-contained character through the first half of the 20th century, before roads and postwar development changed the valley.
Tim Jetson's history of Tasmania's Central Plateau — the high tableland at the heart of the island, bounded by the Western Tiers to the east and the wilderness to the west, and encompassing the lake country around Great Lake, Arthurs Lake, Lake Echo and the surrounding highland waters.
1829, Tasmania and John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre.
![The Romance of the Huon River | Mrs Arthur H. Garnsey (Anne Stafford Bird) | c.1947 [USED – HCDJ – Aged]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/romance-of-the-huon-hcdj-PUkeKA.png "The Romance of the Huon River | Mrs Arthur H. Garnsey (Anne Stafford Bird) | c.1947 [USED – HCDJ – Aged]")
![The Roof of Tasmania – A History of the Central Plateau | Tim Jetson | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/roof-of-tasmania-zQWT3E.png "The Roof of Tasmania – A History of the Central Plateau | Tim Jetson | 1989 [USED – SC – Out of Print]")
