Tasmanian Tiger: The Tragic Story of the Thylacine by David Owen, David Pemberton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The tragic story of how ignorance, fear and lack of care led to the disappearance of the famous Tasmanian tiger. This updated edition includes the latest research on whether it could ever be cloned and returned to the wild.
Memories of Tasmania's West Coast - A Pictorial Journey of Road and Rail Vehicles of the Past by L. J. Morley
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A pictorial journey through the construction of the West Coast road.
Bards of Tasmania's Old West by Patrick James Howard (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
During his research into west coast historyPatrick Howard found poetry was alive and well asthe early west coasters found it useful to expresstheir feelings in verse.Most of these poems were written in the period1891-1905. Apart from topics of local interestthey covered the Boer War, World War I, and th ...Show more
The Building and Re-Building of Basil Steers #1 Hut February Plains
$10.00 AUD
Category: History
Watermarked - This Is the Story of a River by Kelly Slater; Manderlee Anstice (Designed by); Julie Gough (Foreword by)
$42.00 AUD
Category: History
This book presents a photographic story of the Mersey River, that flows for one hundred and fifty kilometres through northern lutruwita/Tasmania, from the glacially sculpted highlands of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area into the sea of Bass Strait. This book is the resolution of a three-year ...Show more
The Native Tribes of Tasmania - Some Account of the Wars, Extirpation, Habits, &C., of the Native Tribes of Tasmania by J. E. Calder; Henry Reynolds (Introduction by, Series edited by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
‘They have never been subdued, therefore they are not rebellious subjects, but an injured nation, defending in their own way, their rightful possessions, which have been torn from them by force.’ —J. E. Calder, 1831 James Erskine Calder, Tasmania’s Surveyor General from 1859 to 1870, lived through the ...Show more
Tasmanian Piners' Punts - Their History and Design by Wiooden Boat Guild of Tasmania; Graeme Broxam (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
History of the Tasmanian Piners' Punt, a small rowing and sometimes sailing boat associated with the commercial timber industry of southern and western Tasmania, with discussion of origin, use and users, and archaeological study and history with photographs of surviving boats and modern replicas.
Win and Clyde: Side by Side in Tasmania's Far South West by Janet Fenton
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Win and Clyde Clayton's personalitites were as opposite as their passions, and yet they made a fine partnership, and a home, in a rugged and roadless corner of Tasmania. they worked their fishing boat together, weathering life-threatening storms on a coast notorious for its treacherous weather.