A guidebook and activity book designed for children doing the Overland Track with their family — packed with colour photos, facts about the wildlife, plants and geology they'll encounter, and activities to keep younger hikers engaged on the trail.
A history of the Kettering–Oyster Cove area south of Hobart, by Julie Gardam. The district's history includes Oyster Cove itself — known today by its Aboriginal name, putalina — where, in 1847, the surviving Tasmanian Aboriginal people were relocated from Wybalenna on Flinders Island, following their earlier forced removal from their own country during the Black War.
A Tasmanian novel of the sea and sailing that tells the story of an island through the eyes of an unforgettable woman, Pearl Macqueen, the Oyster Girl.
The Peaks of Lyell was Geoffrey Blainey's first book, based on his University of Melbourne MA thesis and originally published in 1954. It tells the history of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and through it, of Queenstown and Tasmania's West Coast.
The Peaks of Lyell was Geoffrey Blainey's first book, based on his University of Melbourne MA thesis and originally published in 1954. It tells the history of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, and through it, of Queenstown and Tasmania's West Coast.
This outline of the history of the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement covers its founding on Sarah Island in 1822 as a place of banishment for the colony's most difficult convicts, its eleven-year reputation as one of the harshest penal settlements in the Australian colonies, and notable escapes including those of Matthew Brady and Alexander Pearce.

