An Illustrated Handbook of the Endemic Birds of Tasmania by Jennifer Cossins
$14.99 AUD
Category: Tasmanian
The illustrated handbook of the endemic birds of Tasmania is a small book about a small collection of birds who live on a small island. From the raucous black currawongs that rule the central highlands to the tiny forty-spotted pardalote clinging to survival in a few small pockets of Tasmania’s East Co ...Show more
Enterprise Risk and Ruin: The Stage-Coach and the Development of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania by Steven Walker
$24.99 AUD
$40.00 (37% off)
Category: History
Steven Walker is a retired F111 pilot who restored a coaching inn at Oatlands, studied for a PhD and wrote the most entertaining and informative history of Tasmania more or less all at once. The stage-coach was major 19thC infrastructure and its development is the story of communication, growth and entr ...Show more
Exploring the South land: Tasmania Emerges from Terra Australis Incognita by Libby McMahon; John McMahon
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Exploring the South Land is a celebration of the mapmaker’s art – commencing with the 1606 voyage of Captain Willem Janszoon, the first European to chart part of the unkown southern continent. This book document, by means of a sequence of historical maps, the emergence of knowledge over 400 years from ...Show more
366 Days of Tasmania Volume II by Thomas Gunn
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A history of Tasmania told in events
Rainforest Plants of Tasmania by Phil Collier; Christine Howells
$8.99 AUD
Category: Tasmanian
Another Fork in the Road by Gordon Saunders; Joan Saunders
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
This book is about a migrant family who travelled to Tasmania from war torn England in 1949 - to the "Lucky Country" of Australia which held such promise. The story reveals their life of struggle and joys during their 50 years of journeying in a new and different land. It tells of family history, where ...Show more
Convicts in the Colonies by Lucy Williams
$55.99 AUD
Category: History
In the eighty years between 1787 and 1868 more than 160,000 men, women and children convicted of everything from picking pockets to murder were sentenced to be transported 'beyond the seas'. These convicts were destined to serve out their sentences in the empire's most remote colony: Australia. Through ...Show more
Vanishing Towns - Tasmania's Ghost Towns and Settlements (pbk) by Michael Holmes
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Tasmania is a fascinating and mysterious place so rich in history you can literally ‘touch it’. With over 500 mountains, hundreds of valleys, thousands of lakes and rivers and a rugged indented coastline of about 1,000 kilometres it is no surprise many isolated communities evolved, living almost complet ...Show more
Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles by Kristyn Harman
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
We assume that all convicts were white few people know that indigenous people got caught up in the convict system. These men and women were taken prisoner during frontier wars in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, yet they were treated as criminals rather than prisoners of war, and exiled to penal ...Show more
Built to Last - The Story of the Shipwrights of Port Cygnet Tasmania and Their Boats 1863 - 1997 by Alex Grame-Evans
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
What a great heritage there is in wooden boat building in Tasmania. This book serves as a 'must read' for all lovers of boats, and particular those who appreciate Tasmania's fine traditions in the area of timber boat construction. The Wilsons of Port Cygnet have been, over the last 134 years, one of the ...Show more