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
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.
200 Years of Showing - The Oldest Agricultural Society in Australia by Dianne Snowden
$65.00 AUD
$79.95 (18% off)
Category: History
The Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania (RAST) unearthed the first recorded heart beats of its origins in 1821 in a notice contained in the Hobart Town Gazette and the Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, requesting permission for a meeting of "Stockholders and Gentlemen connected with the Agricultural Int ...Show more
A Burglar's Life by Mark Jeffrey
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of Port Arthur's notorious grave digger. Mark Jeffery (1825-1894) was a rather colourful convict who had been the resident grave digger on the Isle of the Dead at the penal settlement of Port Arthur.
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
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
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
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