Imperial Mud - The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A post-colonial history of the destruction of the Fens of eastern England. A population of proud indigenous people fight for generations to preserve their homelands against an expanding empire - an invasion justified as being necessary for 'progress'.After centuries of resistance, their culture and com ...Show more
Convict Lives: - Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum by Dianne Snowden (Editor); Jane Harrington (Editor)
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
Stories of women convicts who were incarcerated in the New Norfolk Lunatic Asylum
The Remarkable Captain James Kelly of Van Diemen's Land by Anthony Hope
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The story of the illegitimate son of a convict woman. Born in Parramatta in 1791, he went to sea at thirteen years of age, destined to become the first Australian born master mariner, a trader, explorer and entrepreneur. Moving to Hobart Town in 1814, he continued whaling and sealing adventures, inclu ...Show more
Birdsong - Bruny Island Birds by MORGAN A & KING V & CAMERON J (EDS)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Tasmanian
Safe Passage by Garry Richardson
$86.00 AUD
Category: History
The history of Tasmania's 14 manned lighthouses...and the ships that supplied them. Safe Passage is the most comprehensive book written on Tasmania’s 14 manned lighthouses, and the first compiled since they were all de-manned. The lighthouse keepers could not have survived without the supply ships tha ...Show more
Three Sheets to the Wind by Adam Courtenay
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 500 miles to save 7000 gallons of rum by the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was. When Campbell & Clark, Scottish merchants based in India, dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove to the colony of NSW in 1797, they were hopin ...Show more
TASMANIAS BEAUMARIS BEACH MYSTERY WHAT HAPPENED TO NANCY & VICTORIA by CALVERT MELANIE
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The mystery of what happened to 26-year-old German tourist Nancy Grunwaldt and 20-year-old Italian tourist Victoria Cafasso remains unsolved two decades later. Nancy disappeared without trace and Victoria was found brutally murdered, stabbed over forty times, on Beaumaris' lonely but beautiful beach. 'T ...Show more
Van Diemen's Land by James Boyce
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
"With a foreword by Richard Flanagan Winner of the Tasmanian Book Prize 'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim Flannery Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a k ...Show more