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![The Usurper – Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780–1841 | Dan Sprod | 2001 [NEW – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-usurper-Yf0HeC.png "The Usurper – Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780–1841 | Dan Sprod | 2001 [NEW – HCDJ]")
Dan Sprod's biography of Jorgen Jorgenson — one of the most extraordinary figures in Tasmanian history, and arguably in world history of the period. The Usurper is the definitive biography — 718 pages, fully indexed, including the full text of Jorgenson's own account of the Iceland 'revolution.'
![The Van Diemen's Land Edition of the Pickwick Papers – A Bibliographical Study | Clifford Craig | 1973 | Limited Edition No. 24/150 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/vdl-pickwick-papers-NWDaIK.png "The Van Diemen's Land Edition of the Pickwick Papers – A Bibliographical Study | Clifford Craig | 1973 | Limited Edition No. 24/150 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
Clifford Craig's bibliographical study of one of the most extraordinary episodes in early Australian publishing — the unauthorised "pirated" Van Diemen's Land edition of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, printed in Launceston by Henry Dowling between 1838 and 1839, while Dickens's original London serial publication was still being released.
The Vandemonian War tells the secret history of Britain's Tasmanian invasion to create the Van Diemen's Land settlement.
![The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/vanishing-wild-Hbfn6d.png "The Vanishing Wild – Australian Wildlife and the Fight Against Extinction | Justine Hausheer | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation in the last 200 years. Justine Hausheer's 2026 book documents what is being lost and what is being done to prevent further extinctions.
This Folio Society volume presents Charles Darwin's historic journal of research into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during his five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Spanning his critical field observations from South America to the Galápagos Islands, this foundational text stands as both a magnificent travel memoir and a masterpiece of scientific literature.
