A limited edition photographic book - Wilderness, Celebrating Australia’s Protected Places - is filled with breathtaking photographs of Australia's majestic, saved landscapes.
A pocket-sized field guide to identifying wildflowers found on kunanyi/Mt Wellington, part of the "Plant Identikit" series, by Phil Collier — also author of Alpine Wildflowers of Tasmania.
A pocket-sized field guide describing 50 Tasmanian wildflower species, each with a colour photograph and a page of descriptive text. First published in 1969 by Jacaranda Press as part of their Jacaranda Wildflower Guides series; this is a 1986 reprint.
The real William Buelow Gould — the convict artist who became the protagonist of Richard Flanagan's second novel Gould's Book of Fish. Gould was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1827 at the age of 24. He served time at Macquarie Harbour — the brutal penal station at Sarah Island on the west coast — where he painted fish specimens for the colonial surgeon.
William Henry Williams was one of the three foundation lecturers at the newly established University of Tasmania in 1892, and in charge of the undergraduate and Honours program in Classics, English Language and Literature until his retirement as Professor Emeritus in 1925.
This is the biography and family history of convict William Rose Watts, born in Essex in 1811 and transported to Van Diemen's Land for 14-years for stealing six ceramic mugs from his employer.