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.
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.
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
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
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.
Musquito Brutality and Exile: Aboriginal Resistance in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. by Michael Powell
$24.99 AUD
$40.00 (37% off)
Category: History
Musquito was an aborigine who was active in the resistance to white settlement in NSW and was exiled to Norfolk Island in 1813. When Norfolk Island residents were moved to VDL he became a well known figure in and around Hobart. He was responsible for organising the Tasmanians against white settlement an ...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.
A Unique Photo Album of Road Travelling in Tasmania by L. E. S. Morley
$29.99 AUD
Category: History