The Blythe Star Tragedy - How Indifference and Neglect Sank a Ship and Cost Three Men Their Lives by Michael Stoddart
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
On Friday October 12th, 1973, Blythe Star left Hobart for King Island with a cargo of fertiliser and beer. Fourteen hours later it sank without warning. Its crew took to a life raft, destined to drift around southern Tasmania for eight days before beaching on the Forestier Peninsula. The Judge in the Co ...Show more
Marion by Brett Martin
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
A novel about Marion Oak Sticht and her life on the west coast of Tasmania after her husband Robert Sticht had established himself as a genius metallurgist and then lost his fortune on a bad investment. They moved from America to the west coast of Tasmania and built a wonderful house called Penghana an ...Show more
Metal Mining in Tasmania 1804 to 1914 - How Government Helped Shape the Mining Industry by Glyn Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A comprehensive account of the development of the metal mining industry from the beginnings of British settlement in Van Diemen's Land in 1804 to the outbreak of the First World War.
Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport 1940-1950 by L J Morley
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Third book in the series Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport, Les Morley's latest collection of rare photographic material documenting the heritage of transport in Tasmania.Covering 1940-1950.
Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1908 English gentleman, Ernest Westlake, packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the mo ...Show more
Beneath the Peak of Lyell: The Mount Lyell Mines and Their 2 Ft Gauge Tramways by Ross Mainwaring
$65.99 AUD
Category: History
A history of the copper mines of Mount Lyell at Queenstown, Tasmania, and the 2 ft [610 mm] gauge tramways which served them.
Morey & Winnie Waterhouse by Rob Banfield
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
Morey and Winnie lived a life, and lives, both unremarkable and totally unique. Their grandchildren were raised and circled around them on the North West and North coasts of Tasmania during the 1950s, '60s and '70s. This collection of cousins decided to try to capture their stories before time erased th ...Show more