Van Diemen's Land : An Aboriginal History by Murray Johnson; Ian McFarlane
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
The history of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land is long. The first Tasmanians lived in isolation for as many as 300 generations after the flooding of Bass Strait. Their struggle against almost insurmountable odds is one worthy of respect and admiration, not to mention serious attention. This broad-rangin ...Show more
Get Me Out of Here!: Foolish and Fearless Convict Escapes by Pauline Deeves
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Full of crims, crooks and rascally runaways, this fun and light-hearted non-fiction title is a colourful celebration of our convict past Meet the convicts behind Australia's most rascally, dastardly prison escapes. Gifted geniuses or total goofballs? You be the judge! Featuring Moondyne Joe, Mary Bryant ...Show more
Longford - The Legend of a Little Town with a Big Motor by Neil Kearney
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
They raced across clattering wooden bridges, between ditches, wire fences, hedges and hay bales, round a pub, past houses, over train tracks and even swerved through a viaduct.All with a bravado we'll never see again.For one extraordinary weekend each year the world's fastest and loudest machines - on t ...Show more
Tasmanian Shipwrecks - Volume 2 1900-2020 by Graeme Broxam; Mike Nash
$60.00 AUD
Category: History
Accounts of all incidents covering total losses of vessels by shipwreck, constructive total loss and scuttling in Tasmanian waters during the period 1900-2020.
In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wante ...Show more
Grasping at Shadows - Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine by Heather Nimmo
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1975, a young Adelaide teacher, who wanted to write for the theatre, fell in love with a geologist and followed him to the abandoned Tasmanian mining town of Balfour, situated in what is now known as the Tarkine. With another couple and their two small children, they lived the 1970s ‘back to the bush ...Show more
Grease and Ochre by Patsy Cameron
$30.00 AUD
$40.00 (25% off)
Category: History
In the early years of the nineteenth century, a small number of European men moved from the river towns of northern Tasmania onto the small islands of Eastern Bass Strait. Taking Tasmanian Aboriginal women as their wives, the Straitsmen set up small-island homes on what became the colonial sea frontier. ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans ...Show more
Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory by FROST LUCY & HODGSON ALICE M (EDS)
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
The Tin Ticket : The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Featuring accounts of courage, determination and endurance, The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century, and explores the lives of women arrested and sent into slavery in Australia and Tasmania. Discarded by Britain, they arrived as little more than property, but succeeded in forg ...Show more
Shipwrecks of King Island by Graeme Broxam; Mike Nash
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
Shipwrecks and other maritime incidents on King Island in western Bass Strait, between the Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania, from 1802 until the early 2000s. They include some of Australia's worst shipping disasters, including those of the emigrant ship CATARAQUI in 1845 with the loss of 400 l ...Show more
The King Billy Story: A history of the harvesting of the Tasmanian King William Pine by Patrick James Howard
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
The west coast of Tasmania produces three pine trees – Huon Pine, Celery-top and King Billy. After the 1930s when the highly favoured Huon Pine was no longer available in any real quantity, King Billy and to a lesser degree Celery-top pine took its place. Although not quite as old or tall as the Huon p ...Show more