Death on the Derwent: Sue Neill-Fraser's Story by Robin Bowles

$32.99 AUD

Category: History

Don't fool yourself that the innocent never go to jail. When Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht, moored in the Derwent Estuary near the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's marina, on the night of 26 January 2009, he left behind his pipe and tobacco - something that his partner of 18 years, Sue Neill-Fra ser, knew he would never willingly do. What she didn't know was that despite no body, no weapon, no cause of death, and no witnesses, she would soon become the only suspect in Chappell's disappearance. In their haste to wrap up the case, the police charged Neill-Fraser with murder. In her eagerness to assist police, she virtually talked her way into their hands. And after a lengthy trial that resulted in a guilty verdict, the judge delivered Neill-Fraser a crushing 26-year sentence.But was the verdict unsafe? Many of Australia's leading legal minds have said her conviction is 'the greatest miscarriage of justice since Lindy Chamberlain'. Other reasonable hypotheses have been mooted about what might have happened in the dark on the Derwent that night. The Tasmanian government has changed its laws to give Neill-Fraser one last crack at proving her innocence, because that is what it's come to now - proving her innocence. The result of years of investigation, and based on extensive interviews with all the key players - including Sue Neill-Fraser and her family, local underworld figures, and legal luminaries -Death on the Derwent is a riveting story of justice not served. ...Show more

Vintage Tasmania: The Complete Book of Tasmanian Wine by Tony Charles Walker

$49.99 AUD

Category: Tasmanian

The Tasmanian wine industry- it's history, from 1823 to the present, what it is today, including a complete guide to the state's wine routes and a list of every Tasmanian vineyard

Truganini: Journey Through Apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus

$32.99 AUD

Category: History

The haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of 'the last Tasmanian Aborigine'. 'A compelling story, beautifully told' - JULIA BAIRD, author and broadcaster 'At last, a book to give Truganini the proper attention she deserves.' - GAYE SCULTHORPE, Curator of Oceania, The Briti sh Museum Cassandra Pybus's ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn't know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. For nearly seven decades, Truganini lived through a psychological and cultural shift more extreme than we can imagine. But her life was much more than a regrettable tragedy. Now Cassandra has examined the original eyewitness accounts to write Truganini's extraordinary story in full. Hardly more than a child, Truganini managed to survive the devastation of the 1820s, when the clans of south-eastern Tasmania were all but extinguished. She spent five years on a journey around Tasmania, across rugged highlands and through barely penetrable forests, with George Augustus Robinson, the self-styled missionary who was collecting the survivors to send them into exile on Flinders Island. She has become an international icon for a monumental tragedy - the so-called extinction of the original people of Tasmania. Truganini's story is inspiring and haunting - a journey through the apocalypse. 'For the first time a biographer who treats her with the insight and empathy she deserves. The result is a book of unquestionable national importance.' - PROFESSOR HENRY REYNOLDS, University of Tasmania ...Show more

Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story by Kate Legge

$44.99 AUD

Category: Tasmanian | Reading Level: 3 Biography

He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their honeymoon glimpse of Cradle Mountain lit an urge that filled their waking hours. Others might have kept this splendour to themselves, but Gustav Weindorfer and K ate Cowle sensed the significance of a place they sought to share with the world. When they stood on the peak in the heat of January 1910, they imagined a national park for all. Kindred- A Cradle Mountain Love Story traces the achievements of these unconventional adventurers and their fight to preserve the wilderness where they pioneered eco-tourism. Neither lived to see their vision fully realised- the World Heritage listed landscape is now visited by 250,000 people each year. Award-winning journalist Kate Legge tells the remarkable story behind the creation of the Cradle Mountain sanctuary through the characters at its heart. ...Show more

Tasmanian Devil & Map Postcard

$1.00 AUD

Category: cards

Tasmania's Vanishing Towns: Not What They Used To Be by Michael Holmes

$49.99 AUD

Category: History

Michael Holmes has extended the list of Tasmania’s Ghost Towns in the follow up to the wildly popular Vanishing Towns.

A Field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi 3rd edition by RATKOWSKY & GENEVIEVE GATES

$44.99 AUD

Category: Tasmanian

A Field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi will enable readers to appreciate the diversity and the extraordinary variety of fungi that are present in the island state of Tasmania.

Historic & Scenic Tasmania by Owen E. Hughes

$19.99 AUD

Category: Tasmanian

Tasmanian Railways 1950-2000 by Nick Anchen

$70.00 AUD

Category: History

Fight the Fiery Fiend by Roger V. McNeice

$24.95 AUD

Category: History

Tasmania under the Southern Sky by Owen Hughes

$19.95 AUD

Category: Tasmanian | Reading Level: Adult

Life and Work of the Rev Charles Price

$9.95 AUD

Category: History